The treatment of critically ill patients suffering from burns, chronic skin ulcers or serious wounds, is often complicated by infection. Early detection of bacterial and/or fungal infections is a well identified problem in healthcare, where there are significant scientific and technical problems to be overcome.
WOUNDMONITOR will apply state of the art sensor technology for research and development on an innovative diagnostic system that will enable:
- non-invasive sampling of volatiles emitted from burns, skin ulcers or gaping wounds
- rapid processing of such samples with a mobile laboratory-based multi-technology gas sensor array and pattern recognition system
- rapid diagnosis of changes in state of a patient
- assistance to medical personnel in decision-making in the treatment of such patients
- enhancement of patient safety and personalisation of healthcare and lifestyle management for patients.
For further information, please visit:
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/woundmonitor
Project co-ordinator:
The University of Manchester
Partners:
- The University of Manchester (School of Chemical)
- Engineering and Analytical Science) (UK)
- Puslaidininkiu Fizikos Institutas (LT)
- Kaunas Medical University Hospital (LT)
- CNR-Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia, Brescia (IT)
- Biodiversity SPA (IT)
- Umwelt-Systemtechnik GmbH (DE)
- Department of Burns and Plastic Surgery at South
- Manchester University Hospitals Trust (UK)
Timetable: from 01/06 to 12/08
Total cost: 2.242.496
EC funding: 1.665.687
Instrument: STREP
Project Identifier: IST-2004-027859