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Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
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. Ali Tamayol, associate professor, and researchers from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Harvard Medical School, is equipped with miniature needles that can be controlled wirelessly -- allowing the drugs to be programmed by care providers without even visiting the patient.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200213160048.htm
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. Ali Tamayol, associate professor, and researchers from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Harvard Medical School, is equipped with miniature needles that can be controlled wirelessly -- allowing the drugs to be programmed by care providers without even visiting the patient.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200213160048.htm