Advanced Wound Dressing for Real-Time pH Monitoring.

ABSTRACT: The rapid evolution of wearable technologies is giving rise to a strong push for textile chemical sensors design targeting the real-time collection of vital parameters for improved healthcare. Among the most promising applications, monitoring of nonhealing wounds is a scarcely explored medical field that still lacks quantitative tools for the management of the healing process. In this work, a smart bandage is developed for the real-time monitoring of wound pH, which has been reported to correlate with the healing stages, thus potentially giving direct access to the wound status without disturbing the wound bed. The fully textile device is realized by integrating a sensing layer, including the two-terminal pH sensor made of a semiconducting polymer and iridium oxide particles, and an absorb

SUBMITTER: Mariani F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8294608 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature