Smart bandage
Device provides doctors with important information about the wound-healing process
A bandage that makes use of printed electronics could soon alert doctors to changes in the wound-healing process without the need to undergo extensive check-up appointments.
Developed by researchers at the
in the Netherlands, the Smart Bandage uses a film that combines light sources and photo sensors (pixels) to measure the amount of oxygen circulating in the blood around the damaged tissue.
The team hopes the Smart Bandage will help in the commercialisation of the next generation of extremely small, and very low-cost printed electronic sensor technology. By using techniques currently employed in glucose monitoring, the Smart Bandage is claimed to employ advanced scalable printing to enhance patient monitoring by regulating how often a bandage needs to be changed.
Jaap Lombaers, managing director at the Holst Centre, said: 'Embedded in bandages, sensor films deliver important information about healing progress. Doctors are better able to determine the best time to change bandages and therefore speed up the healing process.'
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