Mölnlycke acquires patent for smart solutions to detect infection in wounds
The Swedish medical solutions company, Mölnlycke, is acquiring a patent application from Innovation Skåne, that will help detect infections in wounds. Once developed, the patent is intended to play a major role in reducing the unnecessary use of antibiotics in wound care. The incidence of infection in hard-to-heal chronic wounds, such as diabetic foot ulcers and venous leg ulcers, is high – and one in 20 patients undergoing surgery will develop a surgical site infection[1]. However, infected wounds are costly, difficult to manage and hard to detect. In many cases, expensive
