Recent Advancements in Smart Bandages for Wound Healing

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Wound healing is a complex and dynamic process, making the accurate and timely assessment of skin wounds a crucial aspect ofeffective wound care management, especially for chronic wounds. Unlike conventional wound dressings that simply cover the woundarea once some form of medicine is administered onto the wound, recent studies have introduced versatile approaches to smart wounddressings capable of interacting with wound fluids to monitor physicochemical and pathological parameters to determine the woundhealing status. Such electrochemical wound dressings can be integrated with on-demand, closed-loop drug delivery or stimulation systemsand ultimately expanded into an ideal technological platform for the prevention, treatment, and management of skin wounds orillnesses. This article briefly reviews the wound healing mechanism and recent strategies for effective wound care management. Specifically,this review discusses the following aspects of smart wound dressings: sensor-integrated smart bandages to detect wound biomarkers,smart bandages developed to accelerate wound healing, and wireless, closed-loop automatic (on-demand) wound healingsystems. This review concludes by providing future perspectives on effective wound care management.

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