OPTICAL SENSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SENSOR ENABLED WOUND DRESSINGS AND SYSTEMS

• Main Authors: QUINTANAR, Felix, Clarence, URWIN, Charlotte, Rose, HARTWELL, Edward, Yerbury, PHILLIPS, Marcus, Damian, GUNNING, Paul
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 08.12.2021
• Subjects: BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF,TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, E.G. STENTS; DIAGNOSIS; FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; FIRST-AID KITS; FOMENTATION; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; IDENTIFICATION; INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIRCHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; MEASURING; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; PHYSICS; PROSTHESES; SURGERY; TESTING; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS

In some cases, a method of coating a wound dressing includes coating a wound facing side of a substantially flexible substrate of the wound dressing with a coating, the wound facing side of the substrate supporting at least one optical sensor and reducing and/or controlling surface texture of the co...