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Smart Dressing Glows Green When Wound Becomes Infected
A team of British scientists has developed a smart wound dressing that can detect the presence of bacterial infection. The ability to clean wounds of infections before they develop further would revolutionize wound therapy. The dressing...
Plastic Surgery
Invuity Eikon LT Illuminated Retractor for Safety During Minimally Invasive Surgeries
Invuity, a firm based in San Francisco, CA, has unveiled the new Eikon LT illuminated retractor at the American College of Surgeons 2015 Clinical Congress. The device uses the firm's so called "Intelligent Photonics" technology that illuminates...
Plastic Surgery
New Biocompatible Hydrogel for Wound Healing, Advanced Tissue Regeneration
Researchers at Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital engineered a new material that looks highly promising for use in accelerating wound healing, building replacement tissues, and growing new blood vessels. The photocrosslinkable elastin-like...
Plastic Surgery
Surgeons Review GoPro HERO 3+ for Use in the Operating Room
We've done many product reviews on Medgadget and have read many more on other sites, but the review of the GoPro HERO 3+ Black Edition camera by surgeons at the University of Chicago Medical Center and Pritzker School of Medicine really caught...
Plastic Surgery
Cold Plasma Speeds Up Wound Healing
An interdisciplinary team of German researchers is using cold plasma to speed up the healing of external wounds. The technique relies on creating a high voltage drop between a special device, called the PlasmaDerm, and the skin. The air within this...
Plastic Surgery
Acelity Nanova Negative Pressure Wound Therapy System Coming to Europe (VIDEO)
Acelity (San Antonio, TX) is introducing its Nanova negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) system in Europe. The device is intended to let patients receive NPWT therapy while at home, reducing hospital stays and extending the amount of time the...
Plastic Surgery
GE's New Multi-Parameter Probe to Prevent Pressure Ulcers
GE has partnered with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to test a new multi-parameter sensor for detecting and monitoring decubitus pressure ulcers. The handheld portable device has a thermal sensor for spotting elevated temperature...
Plastic Surgery
Smart Bandage Spots Bedsores Before They are Even Visible (VIDEO)
Pressure ulcers are difficult to manage because patients develop them at different rates and by the time you spot one, well, it's already an ulcer. Researchers at UC Berkeley have now created a flexible sensor that, when applied to the skin, can...
Plastic Surgery
Fight Wrinkles with iDerma Facial Beautification System (VIDEO)
Apira Science, makers of the iGrow, the only FDA approved light-powered hair restoration system, will soon be releasing the iDerma Facial Beautification System that uses 142 red and infrared LEDs to help reduce wrinkles. There are already similar...
Plastic Surgery
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