Electronic wound dressing releases drugs to help injuries heal


The smart bandage

This wound-monitoring sensible patch may sooner or later be used to hurry therapeutic in people – up to now it has been examined in mice and rats

Wei Gao, California Institute of Expertise

A stretchy bandage that may monitor wounds, launch medicine as wanted and carry out electrical stimulation has been proven to speed up therapeutic in rodents.

Wei Gao on the California Institute of Expertise and his colleagues have developed the sensible sticking plaster from a versatile printed circuit board. The dressing, which is only a few centimetres lengthy, incorporates electrochemical sensors that analyse a variety of biomarkers, together with temperature …