Image: Hand of a person performing wound care and bandaging the patient's hand; Copyright: envato/ARTFULLY79

Special February 2023

Materials and sensors in wound care

The care of wounds is one of the daily tasks of many medical professionals. However, it is often difficult to optimally influence the course of the wound. New procedures and materials are expected to achieve improvements in the future. Read more in the Special!

Wound dressing with sensor monitors healing process

Image: Wound dressing with sensor applied; Copyright: phwt

Is the wound healing or is it infected? Physicians must change the bandage to find out because wounds are covered with non-transparent dressings. What happens under the wound dressing is a “black box”. Armin Haas and Professor Kai-Uwe Zirk want to change that. COMPAMED.de asked them about their approach.

Read the interview with Armin Haas and Prof. Zirk here

Tropoelastin: The quest for innovative materials for wound care treatment

Image: Electrospun nonwoven of biotechnologically produced tropoelastin; Copyright: Fraunhofer IMWS

In a joint research project that ended at the end of 2021, the Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems, the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, and Skinomics GmbH examined whether a structural protein is suitable as a wound dressing material. COMPAMED-tradefair.com asked Dr. Christian Schmelzer how successful the endeavor was.

Read the interview with Dr. Christian Schmelzer