What is PRP, and where is it used?
Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) is derived from a small volume of your own blood drawn at the time of IV start, spun in a centrifuge to divide into layers, and extracting the platelet rich layer. Platelets are very important to the early clotting and healing processes, helping create the original closure to small capillaries and delivering chemical agents critical to starting the normal inflammatory-healing cycle. Research has shown that delivery of concentrated platelets directly to a site offers a major acceleration of the wound healing processes, both in form of chemical agents and platelet derived growth factors to speed the process of healing. It is used both in fat grafting, bone grafting and all open incision soft tissue procedures. In each case, rapid resolution of healing is noted, making it a very important aid to natures own processes without the required delay for gradual inflammatory response to arrive.
