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EARTHDATE: April 30, 2017

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REAL LIFE NEWS: SMART BANDAGES TELL DOCTORS HOW THE WOUND IS HEALING

by Hazed

Smart bandages, which use sensors to detect how a wound is healing, could go on trial within the next year.

Swansea University’s Institute of Life Science is developing the smart bandages, which use real-time 5G technology to monitor what treatment is needed and to keep track of a patient’s activity levels, and send messages to doctors to keep them updated on the patient’s condition.

The test would be part of an deal to create a 5G test hub for digital innovation in the Swansea area, by providing resilient, robust bandwidth that is always available.

The institute’s chairman, Prof Marc Clement, said: “That intelligent dressing uses nano-technology to sense the state of that wound at any one specific time.

“It would connect that wound to a 5G infrastructure and that infrastructure through your telephone will also know things about you – where you are, how active you are at any one time.

“You combine all of that intelligence so the clinician knows the performance of the specific wound at any specific time and can then tailor the treatment protocol to the individual and wound in question.”

He explained that this gives an opportunity to doctors to monitor patients and vary their treatment remotely.

If you think this technology sounds familiar, you’ve got a good memory: I covered a similar smart bandage, this time being developed in China, back in 2014, which you can read about here.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-39590851

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