SMART BANDAGE MONITORS VITAL SIGNS (Orthopedics This Week)
It was bound to come—a smart bandage that could monitor whatever was happening to the patient beneath it. A group of scientists at the National Taiwan University in Taipei have developed Bioscope. Bioscope is a bandage that tracks a hospital patient’s vital signs—temperature, heartbeat, movement—and wirelessly transmits the information to a computer. Sensor modules are 3D printed onto the bandage, so that the nursing staff, depending on each patient’s needs, can switch them around.
Emily Wasserman, of Fierce Medical Devices, writes tha...
