Wearable Technology Based Smart Dressing for Effective Wound Monitoring– Correspondence

Abstract

Skin wounds are a global healthcare concern, affecting nearly 1 billion people of the world's total population. Owing to its morbidity and treatment payroll, it severely influences the patient's psychology and social milieu. Any disruption in the anatomical structure of skin induces a wound, which may damage muscles, tendons, and bone leading to osteomyelitis, septicaemia, and even death. Depending upon the healing time and pathogenesis, wounds can be acute or chronic. Structural integrity is retrieved in case of acute wounds, whereas chronic wounds get arrested in a specific phase of healing. Body responds to skin wounds through a dynamic and multistep process known as wound healing, which headways in five stages namely wounding, haemostasis, inflammation, proliferation, and maturation.