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Prestigious NSF grant awarded to FIU engineering professor for ‘smart’ bandages

In the future, a “smart” bandage being developed at FIU’s College of Engineering and Computing could remotely send real-time information directly to physicians to advise them how well a patient’s chronic wound is healing.

That’s the hope of the project’s mastermind, Satheesh Bojja Venkatakrishnan, a research assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Venkatakrishnan’s work in the development of a wireless, adhesive bandage to monitor wounds has led to a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) grant, also known as a “mini CAREER” award. The highly competitive, $175,000 grant is awarded annually to support the promising research of a small number of principal investigators who are early career academicians … read more

NUS scientists develop a smart bandage to monitor chronic wounds

A research team led by Professor Lim Chwee Teck from the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) Department of Biomedical Engineering and Institute for Health Innovation & Technology (iHealthtech), in collaboration with clinical partners from Singapore General Hospital, has developed a smart wearable sensor that can conduct real-time, point-of-care assessment of chronic wounds wirelessly via an app. A world’s first, the novel sensor technology can detect temperature, pH, bacteria type and inflammatory factors specific to chronic wounds within 15 minutes, hence enabling fast and accurate wound assessment … read more

Wearable Devices For Diabetics At Risk Of Diabetic Foot Ulcers

A US-Qatar joint research project, involving different studies carried out by the Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), the Qatar Foundation, and several institutions and companies across the US, developed innovative and useful wearable devices for diabetics, which can help the patients either prevent and manage or even treat diabetic foot ulcers.

 

By gathering the data from all the studies, the research project earned the Best Research Project Award at Qatar Foundation’s Annual Research Conference, held earlier in 2018.

 

Research of significant importance for the world
The project, of a considerable importance for Qatar, as the International Diabetes Federations assessed that about 23% of the country’s population has diabetes, while the diabetic foot ulcers are the primary reason for hospitalization, is also massively important for the world, as the nowadays unhealthy dietary habits increase the risks of diabetes development, worldwide … read more

Researchers develop wearable technology for diabetics

A collaborative research project bringing together four separate studies by researchers at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), in partnership with Qatar Foundation and several institutions in the US, has led to the development of innovative, wearable devices that could enhance the prevention, management and treatment of diabetic foot ulcers.
The studies, completed over a 10-year period, won the Best Research Project Award at Qatar Foundation’s Annual Research Conference earlier this year, HMC said in a statement yesterday.

HMC’s podiatry clinics treat thousands of patients with diabetes each year, with nearly 15,000 diabetes-related appointments in 2017 alone. The International Diabetes Federation estimates that around 23% of Qatar’s population has diabetes, with diabetic foot ulcers being the main reason for hospitalisation for people with diabetes.
“Between 10% and 20% of people with diabetes will develop a foot ulcer at some point in their life,” explained Dr Talal Khader Talal, head of Podiatric Services at HMC and a lead author of the studies … read more

Expert Insight: Technology to Help Tackle Diabetic Foot Problems

As I’m sure you all know diabetic foot problems in this country and most western countries represent the commonest cause for patients with diabetes being admitted to hospital. And I think there is much we can do about this, and I really think that ulceration, as it’s so common and recurrence is so common, we should really redesign what we say when the patient is healed. Healing gives the impression that it’s gone away and will never come back. Thus in a recent review article[1] with my good friend David Armstrong, from the USA, and Sicco Bus from the Netherlands, we brought out the term remission rather than heal, because foot ulcers recur up to 40% in the first year and up to 60% after several more years. So we should be talking about the foot being in remission because it may recur.

 

Now what can we do about the foot in remission to prevent recurrence? And I think there’s a lot of exciting data coming through recently. First of all, not recently, it was Dr Paul Brand[2] who worked in leprosy, who observed that the insensitive foot in leprosy, and also in diabetes, tends to heat up before it breaks down. Therefore, the foot warms up because it becomes inflamed … read more

Doctors who focus on the foot and brain team up on a smart insole

Professors David Armstrong and Charles Liu at first seemed to be an unlikely pair.

But the podiatric surgeon and neurosurgeon clicked on a personal level and promptly realized they had a lot to offer each other as Keck School of Medicine of USC collaborators.

 

Both were already studying how much information a person takes in through the nerves of the feet, how to preserve, repair or replace that information system, and how nerve damage can affect a patient’s mobility.

 

Armstrong is interested in metabolic health, mobility and neuropathy—the loss of nerve sensitivity that can occur in patients with diabetes, Liu noted.

 

“As a neurosurgeon, I’m interested in lower-extremity function and metabolic health, too,” he said. “In my work, I think about how to restore mobility to patients who can’t feel their legs. It’s a similar problem to diabetic foot ulcers.”

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