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Battlefield wounds
Emergency medical situations and surgeries
Abstract
USC scientists and engineers have developed a reversible temperature-sensitive hydrogel that can seal eye injuries on the spot. The modified gel is liquid at room temperature and transitions to a solid with strong adhesive properties when heated. This seal can be removed simply...
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Burn treatment
Emergency medical services
Battlefield medicine
Abstract
USC inventors propose a spray-on burn bandage employing a thermo-responsive hydrogel. The bandage adheres strongly to both healthy and burned skin at body temperature, and it can be easily removed by cooling with a cold compress. The hydrogel mimics the natural extracellular...
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Background
Thermoresponsive hydrogels are attractive for injectable wound closure and other in situ forming applications because they can be applied as free-flowing liquids at low temperature and then gel near physiological temperatures. Their practical use, however, is limited by slow or incomplete gel-to-sol recovery after exposure to elevated storage...
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