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Medical Maggots™ are indicated for use in the care and treatment of chronic wounds ("wound care") of humans or other animals for the following indications:
For debriding non-healing necrotic skin and soft tissue wounds, including pressure ulcers, venous stasis ulcers, neuropathic foot ulcers and non-healing traumatic or post surgical wounds.
Medical Maggots™ are used to clean ("debride") and manage wounds in a procedure known as "maggot therapy." Sometimes wound debridement using maggots is also called "maggot debridement therapy," "MDT," "larva therapy," "larval therapy," "larva debridement therapy," or "biodebridement."
NOTE: In the United States, Medical Maggots™ are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration as a prescription only medical device used in the care and treatment of wounds. They can not be released without a prescription or an order to do so by an appropriately licensed health care provider.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
CBS Channel 2 News recently paid a visit to Monarch Labs.
See their video about maggot therapy and listen to what therapists and patients say on their news documentary.
To view their video, Press Here.
Veterinarians at Oklahoma State University used maggot therapy to treat a horse bitten by a rattlesnake. An extensive area of the neck necrosed, compromising the animal’s breathing (despite a tracheostomy and intravenous antibiotics). Three cycles of maggot therapy were applied, the wound began to heal, and she was released from the hospital. You can read more about this amazing story at: Oklahoma State University web site.
Doctors at the National Institutes of Medicine describe one of the patients treated with maggot therapy in the July 20, 2004 issue of The NIH Record. He developed a large wound on the inner thigh which failed multiple medical and surgical attempts to close it. After a year of unsuccessful efforts to heal the wound, he was finally treated with maggot therapy which led to debridement and healing of his wound. You can read the story at: http://www.nih.gov/nihrecord/07_20_2004/main.htm.
Monarch Labs is proud to support the BioTherapeutics, Education & Research Foundation and its educational programs on Maggot Therapy. Look for the BTER Foundation at such events as Diabetes Expo, LA and the Symposium for Advanced Wound Care (SAWC) in 2007. Come to the BTER Foundation exhibit booths to see live maggots, and learn how to apply maggot therapy dressings.
Monarch Labs is proud to support the BTER Foundation's next Maggot Therapy Workshop, to be held in Irvine, CA on March 9, 2007. If you attend the workshop, please plan to join us at Monarch Labs that day for an open house and tour. (Sorry, we do not give public tours, due to the need to prevent potential contamination in the laboratory. This is a one-time event for workshop attendees, only.)
WEBSITE CONTENTS
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Find information about maggot therapy --- its history and current status --- at the |
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Maggot therapy is now used to treat animal wounds, too.
Information about maggot therapy in veterinary wound care (cats, dogs, horses and other equines) can be found
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For references, articles, support and links about maggot therapy, check out our References & Links page. |
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Press Releases and Announcements, new and old, are archived here. |
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To order Medical Maggots™, go to our order form page |
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Read or download a
price list and order form
for Medical Maggots™ and other maggot therapy products |
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Read or download the package insert. |
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An educational slide set about maggot therapy is now
available for free, from the BTER Foundation. |
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Here is a guide to making dressings that hold the Medical Maggots in place. |
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For the latest in reimbursement information, view this page. |
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" The making of a Medical Maggot™ " in pictures and video. |
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Here you will find a list of frequently asked questions (and some answers, too!) |
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To report an adverse event or problem, use this form.
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Contact Monarch Labs and its staff at any of these numbers |
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