The Effect of an Atmospheric Plasma Source on Blood Coagulation

Plasma medicine is an emerging field among the broad spectrum of plasma science applications. It deals with the use of cold plasmas produced at atmospheric pressure in order to obtain a therapeutic effect on living matter. The most studied fields of application at present include disinfection, wound healing, blood coagulation and cancer cell treatment. The driving idea of plasma medicine is to perform a very localized and non-thermal treatment at the human/animal body substrate. In this contribution, through several in-vitro and in-vivo tests, we describe the effect on blood coagulation (BC) of the application of a cold atmospheric plasma source, called Plasma Coagulation Controller (PCC), specifically designed and developed for this purpose [1]. In this context, our aim was to develop a new device to exploit the pro-coagulant effect of locally delivery plasma and to test its efficacy in accelerating blood coagulation and inhibiting tissue bleeding.