Bandage, in particular a compression bandage

A bandage (10) including;

• a. a flat material web (12) having a first (14) and a second (16) side and a first (18) and second (20) end which are spaced apart in the longitudinal direction of the bandage (10) with respect to a longitudinal axis of the bandage (10), the flat material web (12) having first and second edges extending between the first end (18) and the second end (20) which are spaced in a lateral direction of the bandage (10) with respect to a lateral axis of the bandage (10), the lateral axis being orthogonal to the longitudinal axis,
• b. a wound dressing pad (22) disposed on a portion of the first side (14) of the flat material web (12), the wound dressing pad (22) being positioned entirely between the first edge and the second edge and entirely at a position between the first end (18) and the second end (20) of the flat material web (12),
• c. a pressure applicator (32) secured to the second side (16) of the flat material web (12) opposite the wound dressing pad (22),
• d. a fastening element (24) at the second end (20) of the flat material web (12) for fastening the second end (20) of the flat material web (12) on or to itself when the bandage (10) is positioned on a carrier, the fastening element (24) including a clip (26) having two clip elements (28) configured to hook onto a winding of the flat web material (12), wherein:
• the pressure applicator (32) comprises a one-piece base plate (34) and two elongated fixing elements (36, 38) in a substantially S-shape or Z-shape,
• each of the two elongated fixing elements (36, 38) have two ends (36′, 36″:
• 38′, 38″) located towards opposing ends of the width of the bandage (10) such that two elongated fixing elements (36, 38) are arranged in the longitudinal direction of the bandage (10) on both sides of the one-piece base plate (34) and extend at an angle to the longitudinal direction of the bandage (10),
• in each case only one first end (36′, 38′) of each of the elongated fixing elements (36, 38) is integrally secured to the one-piece base plate (34) and only the other second end (36″, 38″) of the elongated fixing elements of the same respective elongated fixing element is free,
• the elongated fixing elements (36, 38) define a gap between them and the one-piece base plate (34) over their respective remaining lengths such that the second ends (36″, 38″) are spaced from the one-piece base plate (34) to enable reception of at least the flat material web (12) through respective sides of the pressure applicator (32),
• the first ends (36′, 38′) of each of the fixing elements (36, 38) secured to the one-piece base plate (34) are situated diagonally opposite one another,
• the one-piece base plate (34) comprises a parallelogram-like form,
• wherein the one-piece base plate (34) defines a maximum lateral dimension extending in the lateral direction of the bandage, the maximum lateral dimension of the base plate (34) being greater than 50% but less than 97.5% of the total width of the bandage (10), and
• wherein the pressure applicator (32) is configured to apply uniform pressure in a direction towards a wound in a centralized manner when placed on top of the wound.

A bandage (10) including

• a flat material web (12) having a first (14) and a second (16) side and a first end (18) and second end (20) which are spaced apart in a longitudinal direction of the bandage (10) with respect to a longitudinal axis of the bandage (10), the flat material web (12) having first and second edges extending between the first end (18) and the second end (20) which are spaced in a lateral direction of the bandage (10) with respect to a lateral axis of the bandage (10), the lateral axis being orthogonal to the longitudinal axis,
• a wound dressing pad (22) on the first side of the flat material web (12), the wound dressing pad (22) extending across a portion of the first side,
• a pressure applicator (32) secured to the second side (16) of the flat material web (12) opposite the wound dressing pad (22),
• the pressure applicator (32) comprises a base plate (34) and two elongated fixing elements (36, 38) extending from the base plate, wherein each of the two elongated fixing elements (36, 38) have two ends (36′, 36″, 38′, 38″) located towards opposing ends of the width of the bandage (10) such that the two elongated fixing elements (36, 38) are arranged in the longitudinal direction of the bandage (10) on both sides of the base plate (34) and extend at an angle to the longitudinal direction of the bandage (10),
• wherein the elongated fixing elements (36, 38) are configured to define a gap between each of the elongated fixing elements (36, 38) and the base plate (34) over the respective remaining lengths of the elongated fixing elements (36, 38) such that the second ends (36″, 38″) are spaced from the base plate (34) in non-contacting relation therewith,
• wherein the base plate (34) defines a longitudinal dimension extending in the longitudinal direction and wherein each of the two elongated fixing elements (36, 38) define a corresponding longitudinal dimension extending in the longitudinal direction and wherein the longitudinal dimension of the base plate (34) is greater than the longitudinal dimension of each of the two elongated fixing elements (36, 38),
• wherein the base plate (34) defines a maximum lateral dimension extending in the lateral direction of the bandage, the maximum lateral dimension of the base plate (34) being greater than 50% but less than 97.5% of the total width of the bandage (10), and
• wherein the pressure applicator (32) is configured to apply uniform pressure in a direction towards a wound in centralized manner when placed on top of the wound.