A prototype medical dressing that could save children’s lives.
Researchers at the University of Bath say the dual-purpose bandage will
react when burns wounds become infected.
They’ve been testing fabric, covered with microscopic bacterial matter.
[Dr. Toby Jenkins, Senior Lecturer at University of Bath]:
"Firstly it will automatically release an antibiotic, or an
anti-microbial, directly into the wound. This will have the advantage
for clinicians, that they will not have to intervene directly. The wound
will sense what's going on and if it feels itself to be infected it
will respond completely automatically. The second thing it will do will
be to change color, at the same time alerting a clinician or a nurse or a
patient, him or herself, that infection is starting to take place in
the wound environment."
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