Temperature- and pH-sensitive wearable materials for monitoring foot ulcers
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Temperature- and pH-sensitive wearable materials for monitoring foot ulcers
Foot ulcers account for 15% of comorbidities associated with diabetes. Presently, no device allows the status of foot ulcers to be continuously monitored when patients are not hospitalized. In this study, we describe a temperature and a pH sensor capable of monitoring diabetic foot and venous leg ulcers developed in the frame of the seventh framework program European Union project SWAN-iCare (s...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Nanomedicine
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1178-2013
DOI: 10.2147/ijn.s121726