OPELOUSAS, La. (KLFY)- Opelousas General Health System is now using a new advanced wound care technology that officials say is helping change how chronic wounds are treated in Louisiana.
The hospital and its Wound Treatment Center have introduced the APLICOR 3D Tissue Regeneration System, a first-in-the-state technology that combines artificial intelligence, 3D printing, and a patient’s own fat tissue to create a personalized graft used to help heal chronic wounds when standard treatments have stalled.
The system was developed by Tides Medical, a Lafayette-based biotechnology company specializing in wound care products. Officials said the approach uses a patient’s own biology to support healing and is designed to make advanced bioengineered treatment more accessible in local wound care clinics…