Prophylactic dressing
AssigneeMölnlycke Health Care AB
InventorsDennis Hansson, Karin Glasmästar, Anna Grou, Conny Jakobsson, Océane Lançon
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Abstract
Described is a method of mitigating and/or preventing the onset of a pressure ulcer at an area of risk of developing a pressure ulcer, which includes the step of: a) applying a medical dressing to intact skin of a subject at the area of risk of developing the pressure ulcer, thereby mitigating and/or preventing the onset of the pressure ulcer, wherein the medical dressing has a gel pad arranged between a backing layer and an adhesive body contact layer, wherein a gel of the gel pad has a compressive strength of from 5 to 60 kPa at a strain of 50%, as measured according to a compression test.
Claims10
A method of performing a blanching test comprising the steps of:
- a) providing a medical dressing on skin of a subject,
- wherein the medical dressing comprises a gel pad arranged between a backing layer and an adhesive body contact layer,
- wherein a gel of the gel pad has a compressive strength of from 5 to 60 kPa at a strain of 50%, as measured according to a compression test,
- wherein the gel pad, the backing layer, and the adhesive body contact layer are transparent,
- b) performing the blanching test through the medical dressing of an area of the skin of the subject covered by the gel pad, the backing layer, and the adhesive body contact layer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.