Novel Aspects of Drug Delivery: Wireless Electronic Devices

Abstract

A novel system of delivery presents many advantages such as sustained delivery, higher bioavailability, improved medication compliance, and therapeutic outcomes, patient monitoring, and minor side effects. One of the improved ways of drug delivery is electronic capsules which can deliver drugs to a specific site in the gastrointestinal tract and can also be used for patient monitoring. Wireless transdermal patches are a novel electronic drug delivery system, which is portable, disposable and worn on the skin surface to deliver medications on the transdermal level. Electronic transdermal drug delivery has made a major contribution to clinical practice due to improving the efficiency of drug delivery over the conventional route. The improvement can provide a solution for getting rid of the bondage of batteries as well as the restrictions of inconvenient wires, on self-powered systems. The greatest achievement of wireless transdermal patches is the ability to further improve transdermal drug delivery for certain drugs that could not be administered using conventional transdermal patches. Electronic drug delivery systems such as capsules, on the other side, can be used not only to deliver drugs to a specific site in the gastrointestinal tract but can also record data and report the state of patients gastrointestinal tract, and after excretion, this information can be studied and used to present them graphically.