{"id":188031,"date":"2015-05-15T13:40:37","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T16:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=188031"},"modified":"2015-06-24T13:52:47","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T16:52:47","slug":"controlled-healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/controlled-healing\/","title":{"rendered":"Controlled healing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_188033\" style=\"max-width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-188033\" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Tecno_Cover-Art.jpg\" alt=\"Printed circuit board attached to a transparent, flexible sensor that assesses the health of a patient's skin\" width=\"290\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Tecno_Cover-Art.jpg 290w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Tecno_Cover-Art-120x121.jpg 120w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Tecno_Cover-Art-250x253.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">FELIPPE PAVINATTO \/ IFSC-USP<\/span>Printed circuit board attached to a transparent, flexible sensor that assesses the health of a patient&#8217;s skin<span class=\"media-credits\">FELIPPE PAVINATTO \/ IFSC-USP<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>A new kind of printed circuit board will make it possible to keep track of the skin healing process and assess whether medications should be prescribed, as well as their effects. The device is transparent and flexible, thereby facilitating its application onto a wound or sore. Its main application will be in the care of patients who have developed pressure sores (bedsores) as a result of being bedridden for an extended period. \u201cThe device makes it possible to detect sores even before they become visible on the skin,\u201d says Felippe Pavinatto from the S\u00e3o Carlos Institute of Physics of the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (USP), who participated in the project developed at the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco campuses during his post-doctoral studies funded by a grant from FAPESP. The equipment is able to measure changes in the electrical profile of degraded skin (based on a physical property called impedance) and map out its state of health. The initial goal of the research was to develop a sensor to monitor the healing of chronic sores and the effect of medication use. \u201cOver the course of the work, we found another use for the sensor,\u201d says Pavinatto, one of the authors of the scientific paper that describes the device, published in <em>Nature Communications<\/em> on March 17, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Skin healing process may be analyzed by printed circuit board","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[243,247],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-188031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technoscience","tag-innovation","tag-medicine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188031"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=188031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}