Patent ID: 8535282
Filing Date: 2013-09-17
Classification: A61B,A61M,B33Y

Abstract:
1. An apparatus to evaluate and monitor healing progress of a wound and to generate data to modify or identify a treatment protocol comprising: a dressing enclosure for administering reduced pressure treatment to a wound, wherein the enclosure is configured to cover the wound and to maintain reduced pressure at the wound location; a device capable of supplying reduced pressure; a microfluidic device including a closed-channel continuous flow system connected between said dressing enclosure for said wound and said device capable of supplying reduced pressure to withdraw fluid exudates containing one or more analytes from said wound wherein said microfluidic device includes first and second compartments wherein in said first compartment an analyte that is one of said one or more analytes binds with one or more labeled antibodies or aptamers and in a second compartment the bound analyte is detected; and a sensor in said second compartment of said microfluidic device capable of analyzing said fluid exudates for one or more analytes indicative of said progress of wound healing and said analyzing of said fluid exudates is done continuously without disruption of said reduced pressure at said wound location and providing real time analysis of wound healing and providing real-time treatment protocol adjustments.