Wearable Photomedicine for Neonatal Jaundice Treatment Using Blue Organic Light‐Emitting Diodes (OLEDs): Toward Textile‐Based Wearable Phototherapeutics

Neonatal jaundice is a very common disease in newborns and can lead to brain damage or death in severe cases. Phototherapy with light‐emitting diode (LED) arrays is widely used as the easiest and fastest way to relieve jaundice in newborns, but it has distinct disadvantages such as loss of water in...

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Published in:Advanced science 2022-12, Vol.9 (35), p.e2204622-n/a
Main Authors: Choi, Seungyeop, Jeon, Yongmin, Kwon, Jeong Hyun, Ihm, Chunhwa, Kim, Seung Yeon, Choi, Kyung Cheol
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
bilirubin
Design
Electrodes
Fluorescent lighting
Humans
Infant, Newborn
Jaundice - therapy
Jaundice, Neonatal
Light emitting diodes
Light therapy
Manufacturing
Medical equipment
Medical research
Metabolism
neonatal jaundice
organic light‐emitting diodes (OLEDs)
photomedicine
Phototherapy - methods
Pulse oximetry
Reproducibility of Results
textile
Wearable Electronic Devices
Wound healing
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Summary:Neonatal jaundice is a very common disease in newborns and can lead to brain damage or death in severe cases. Phototherapy with light‐emitting diode (LED) arrays is widely used as the easiest and fastest way to relieve jaundice in newborns, but it has distinct disadvantages such as loss of water in the patient, damage to the retina, and separation from parents. In this paper, a novel light source‐based phototherapy for neonatal jaundice is proposed using a textile‐based wearable organic light‐emitting diode (OLED) platform that can move flexibly and conform to the curvature of the human body. The soft and flexible textile‐based blue OLED platform is designed to have a peak wavelength of 470 nm, suitable for jaundice treatment, and shows performance (>20 µW cm−2 nm−1) suitable for intensive jaundice treatment even at low voltage (
ISSN:2198-3844
2198-3844
DOI:10.1002/advs.202204622