{"id":116956,"date":"2020-12-10T22:29:30","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T06:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/nih-funds-clinical-trial-to-test-device-that-heals-wounds-with-ultrasound"},"modified":"2020-12-10T22:29:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T06:29:30","slug":"nih-funds-clinical-trial-to-test-device-that-heals-wounds-with-ultrasound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/nih-funds-clinical-trial-to-test-device-that-heals-wounds-with-ultrasound","title":{"rendered":"NIH Funds Clinical Trial to Test Device That Heals Wounds With Ultrasound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5PFTt5DIpzs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Drexel University researchers are one step closer to offering a new treatment for the millions of patients who suffer from slow-healing, chronic wounds. The battery-powered applicator \u2014 as small and light as a watch \u2014 is the first portable and potentially wearable device to heal wounds with low-frequency ultrasound.<\/p>\n<p>The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded the research team an estimated $3 million to test the therapy on 120 patients over the next five years. By using diagnostic monitoring of blood flow in the wound tissue, the clinical trial will also determine how nutrition and inflammation impact wound closure, making treatment customization a possibility.<\/p>\n<p>The project is an interdisciplinary collaboration between Drexel\u2019s School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems, the College of Medicine and the College of Nursing and Health Professions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drexel University researchers are one step closer to offering a new treatment for the millions of patients who suffer from slow-healing, chronic wounds. The battery-powered applicator \u2014 as small and light as a watch \u2014 is the first portable and potentially wearable device to heal wounds with low-frequency ultrasound. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,1495,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-health","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}