Chronic and non-healing wounds – one of the most devastating complications of diabetes and the leading cause of limb amputation – affects millions of Americans each year. Due to the complex nature of these wounds, proper clinical treatment has been limited.
For the first time, faculty in the biomedical engineering department – a shared department with the UConn School of Dental Medicine, School of Medicine, and School of Engineering – designed a wirelessly-controlled, or “smart,” bandage and corresponding smartphone-sized platform that can precisely deliver different medications to the wound with independent dosing.
This bandage, developed by Dr...
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