Iced Bio-Bandage Design for Skin Burns
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Authors
Alkhader, Arar
Hu, Junling
Akinkunmi, Akinwumi
Patra, Prabir
Xiong, Xingguo
Issue Date
2014-03-28
Type
Presentation
Language
en_US
Keywords
Engineering , Faculty research day , Skin burns , Iced bio-bandage
Alternative Title
Abstract
In this paper a new model for a burns biobandage is introduced not only as a protective means but also as a treatment technique by helping the tissue to rebuild itself as fast as possible. The main objective of this research is to develop a simple cryotherapeutic system to reduce the temperature of the burned tissues to normal temperature of the human body in order to facilitate the tissue healing and regeneration process. A biobandage is proposed to include an iced layer as a cooling source, a cotton layer and a water gel layer for comfort and temperature control, and a plastic layer to seal the ice layer. The optimal combination of these four layers physically work together to reduce inflammation, which in turn makes the heeling or recovery time shorter and reduces pain as a result of decreasing the nerve conductivity. The COMSOL Multiphysics was used to model the cooling process on burned tissue using the proposed iced-biobandage. A modeling analysis was performed to examine the changes of temperature over a predetermined time and to help in identifying the optimal period for ice cooling process.