<![CDATA[The Penicillin of Pressure Injuries: Researchers Develop New Sensor System to Prevent a Common Hospital Complication]]>

688828 news 1773158720 1773165416 <![CDATA[The Penicillin of Pressure Injuries: Researchers Develop New Sensor System to Prevent a Common Hospital Complication]]> Hospital stays can be long and arduous; they can also cause serious complications. When a person lies in one position too long and begins to sweat, painful sores called pressure injuries (PIs) can form on the body, leading to infection or even death. A patient can develop a PI in a few days — or even a few hours. And once present, a PI is hard to treat. To address this issue, researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a new, flexible, sensor-filled fabric to monitor areas at risk of PIs and alert hospital staff when a patient needs to be turned.

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Georgia Tech researcher Nick Housley is developing a drug‑delivery system designed to send cancer treatments directly to tumors while minimizing damage to healthy tissue. His team’s approach uses self‑assembling nanohydrogels (SANGs) that circulate through the body, remain inactive in healthy environments, and release their drug payload only when they encounter the unique chemical conditions created by tumors.

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Georgia Tech’s flexible, sensor‑embedded fabric — designed to detect pressure injury risk and alert care teams when a patient needs repositioning — is now being tested on cribs in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s Arthur M. Blank Hospital.

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