‘Smart dressing’ to improve medics ability to monitor patient wounds

Irish and Dutch researchers have developed the world’s first “smart dressing” set to revolutionise wound care.

Medics will be able to monitor patients’ wounds without having to remove the dressing when it becomes commercially available in 2017.

It is the result of a successful collaboration between Tyndall National Institute in Cork, Fleming Medical in Limerick and the Holst Centre/ TNO in the Netherlands.