Remote-controlled dressing allows medication to be administered

What if a remote-controlled dressing allows you to administer medication and care without having to remove or change it !?

This remote-controlled dressing will therefore avoid much compulsory care during the various stages of the healing process. This bandage was created by a team from the University of Connecticut, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Harvard Medical School; from an already developed device.

It is equipped with small reservoirs of necessary medicines. When activated selectively by a smartphone-sized wireless controller, miniature needles placed under these reservoirs deliver the drug relatively deep into the wound. Said like that it can be scary. But rest assured, the procedure is supposed to be fairly painless.

According to scientists, injecting drugs this way is more effective than just applying them to the skin. But perhaps most importantly, the dressing should not be removed. And this has several advantages. First, it avoids damaging the wound every time other medications need to be administered. Even better: the remote-controlled dressing could be used via the internet. So the caregiver is not even in the same room as the patient.

Lately, this technology has recently been tested on thick skin wounds on diabetic mice. The wounds of the animals have completely healed, with minimal scarring. Good news for people suffering from this technology.

"This is an important step in the development of new generation dressings that can help heal hard-to-treat wounds. Said Professor Ali Tamayol of the University of Connecticut. "The dressing does not need to be changed constantly. "

If you want to know more, know that the research is described in an article published this week in the journal Advanced Functional Materials.

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