An innovation in sensor technology by a team of American engineers and doctors could make it far easier for parents to cuddle their babies in the neonatal intensive care units.
Parents of premature babies who spent time in neonatal intensive care units remember all too well the burdensome vital sign sensors stuck on the infants’ tiny bodies – linking them through a mess of wires to monitoring equipment.
But here, the researchers created sensors just two and 0.8 inches long for the chest and the foot, which operate without batteries and use a water-based adhesive gel that is 10 times lighter than the standard fare.The sensors used in today’s incubators are basically the same as those used in the 1960s, said Professor John Rogers, director of the Center for Bio-Integrated Electronics at Northwestern University, United States.
“Premature babies are at a fragile health status, they require a lot of monitoring, and at the same time, their skin is underdeveloped – it’s very sensitive, it’s easily damaged and disrupted.” “This is a phenomenal breakthrough,” said Kelli Kelley, who had two premature children, including a boy who had to stay in intensive care for four months.
Her son is now 18. But she said one of his nipples was damaged so severely by the sensors’ adhesives that a portion had to be removed. Wireless sensors avoid that problem entirely. They can even adhere to the skin naturally without an adhesive, even though a hydrogel 10 times weaker than conventional ones was used in the study.
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