Curly Gibson

Novel bandage, make wound better healing

Novel bandage some has been put into application, they often look like technical content is not high, because that new technology can be hardly worthy of belief is not so easy to make use of their patients find.

1, Chitin gauze

HemCon medical technology company with the marine force to make bandages and wound dressings. The company’s products use of chitin, a biological polymer from crab, shrimp and other crustaceans’ exoskeleton components. Chitin with positive charge and red blood cell membrane of negative charge attract each other, partial coagulation when they contact occurs.

2, house lizard bandage

House lizard in the vertical surface of climbing is due to their special shape of the foot: nanometer level cilia make their foot with viscosity.

Robert Lange, Geoffrey Karp, and their colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology inspired by house lizard, developed surface with artificial cilia bandage. The bandage can be affixed to the wet surface, and is biodegradable, this means that the surgeon can use it to repair the wound patient.

3, quick-setting bandage

In quick-setting family products, they use of the Kaolin that is the natural clotting agent. Decades ago, people have discovered Kaolin rich in aluminum silicate particles, can trigger a chain reaction of the body blood coagulation.

4, ultrasonic device

Temporary forget the bandage, we have a look sound waves. George Lewis, major in biomedical engineering, Cornell University graduate student, invented a ultrasonic device can emit high energy sound waves that only a pocket sized. The device emits an ultrasonic is strong enough to hemostasis the cauterization wound. This tool is the inventor of this device will be installed in the military and emergency healers’ pocket, to help them deal with the field of severe bleeding patients.

5, skeleton bandage

University of Sheffield scientists have created elaborate biodegradable bandage, the bandage on the wound surface as the skin farms. The doctor can be extracted from the skin of patient living tissues and cells are attached to the skeleton. Skin cell proliferation in the skeleton, and gradually cover the skeleton. But the skeleton with subsequent degradation, leaving only the patient ’s own skin cells.

6, electric bandage

Will the wound not heal? The electric shock it. Studies show that the skin itself micro current in the wound healing process plays an important role in. The clinical findings, if the bandage can provide minor current through the wound surface, healing would be significantly more rapidly, even those wound of other treatment modalities exist resistance. The bandages surface is covered with tiny battery, in dry conditions, the battery will discharge, but when the bandages from wetting current circuit is activated, the surface of the wound can be produced in weak current.

7, since the assembly gel

University of Delaware researchers Joel Schneider and Dalin Bohan has a gel applied for a patent. This gel composition with self assembly peptide. When the gel is injected into the wound becomes hard and maintaining porous. The researchers hope to use it to cut the inner drug releasing or regeneration of cells.