High-tech Dressing that glows green if a wound isn't healing

According to the online medical technology news website that “Medgadget” had released information about their new medical equipment on Oct 27, 2015 – A team of British scientists has developed a smart wound dressing that can detect the presence of bacterial infection. Around 200,000 patients in Britain have a chronic wound that needs constant care, and the annual cost to the NHS is estimated at £3 billion.

In many cases, the wounds are due to ulcerations to the lower leg caused by damage to the circulation from diabetes.

Via Mail Online

Scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, in Boston, U.S., start to develop a revolutionary bandage that could tell doctors and nurses if healing is underway.

This new product can help to clean wounds of infections before they develop further which would revolutionize wound therapy. The bandage turns fluorescent green if conditions inside wounds are hampering the healing process.

The dressing is made of a hydrated agarose film, a substance that is the main constituent of agar.

It had begun testing on 50 patients at Mid Western Regional Hospital, Ireland one year ago.