Smart bandage: heals faster and monitors wounds

Smart bandage is part of the recent advances in technology, they can help speed up wound healing, monitor them and administer treatments.

The smart bandage represents an innovative technology that is revolutionizing wound treatment and patient care. Thus, these technological devices go beyond simply covering a wound. In fact, they incorporate advanced technology to monitor healing, administer treatments and speed up the recovery process.

Some scientists from the National University of Singapore have developed the smart bandage. Certainly, it allows all the necessary information about a wound to be known, without having to remove a dressing. In addition, the information is obtained through a sensor.

This new technological device can be very useful for treating chronic wounds, which affect approximately 2% of the world’s population. That is why some of its benefits are: speeding up healing, reducing scar formation, improving skin recovery and also avoiding infections. Bandage according to the WHO: It consists of wrapping a limb or other body parts with bandages or similar, providing the necessary care and avoiding complications.

These technological devices can release growth factors directly into the wound, allowing tissue regeneration. Likewise, it helps to significantly accelerate the healing process.

Benefits:

Healing in less time. Consequently, hospitalization costs and prolonged treatments are reduced.
Designs adapted to the patient’s comfort and characteristics.
Through the platform and mobile application, treating physicians can remotely monitor the evolution of the injury.
Investors, pharmaceutical companies and hospitals could consider acquiring this technology, in this way, offering a comfortable option to patients.

Function of the smart bandage:

The smart bandage detects changes in conductivity and temperature in the skin as the wound heals.
Smart systems allow to detect, respond, report or a combination of these functions. For this reason, they can address many of the challenges associated with wound healing, particularly chronic wounds, improving clinical outcomes through means such as early detection of infections.

Some examples of smart bandages are:

The bandage developed by scientists at the National University of Singapore, which allows information about the wound to be known without having to remove the dressing.
Wireless that accelerates wound healing by 25%.
The bandage that uses tiny LED lights to emit ultraviolet C light and sterilize the wound.
The one that uses electrical stimulation and biosensors to increase blood flow to the injured tissue.

It is important that you know the types of bandages that currently exist:

Circular bandage. The main function of this type of bandage is to protect or hold a specific part of the body.
Spiral.
Spike.
Recurrent.
Figure-eight bandage.
Pretape.
Functional bandage.
Compression bandages.
Three main categories of bandages: roll bandages, triangular bandages and tubular bandages.

Therefore, the future of smart bandages is promising. For this reason, we are likely to see a wide range of applications in the medical field.