Deep surgical wounds can be monitored via conductive multifilament surgical sutures incorporating ‘sensing pledgets’ bearing capacitive sensors operated via harmonic radiofrequency identification.
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Sonkusale, S. Sutures for the wireless sensing of deep wounds. Nat Biomed Eng 5, 1113–1114 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-021-00806-w
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