Plasma Medicine

Reasons Why We Need Cold Atmospheric Plasmas in Bacteria-Related Diseases in Medicine

ABSTRACT

Upcoming technologies for medical purposes must demonstrate their unique features and benefits compared with other methods in use. Cold atmospheric plasma technology has unique properties regarding antimicrobial purposes, owing to the numerous ways to generate and design the plasma. To date, no primary resistance against any tested microbes has been found. Furthermore, several tests and theoretical calculations show the unlikelihood of microbes acquiring resistance against cold atmospheric plasma. The latter fact is the main advantage of cold atmospheric plasma technology compared with conventional antimicrobial products (e.g., antibiotics) available in the medical sector, whose more or less uncontrolled usage has led to global resistance concerns and possibly to a lack of future treatment approaches.