Medical dressing comprising an antimicrobial silver compound and a method for enhancing wound healing
OwnerBrian Nielsen, Trine Wulffinventors
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Abstract
A medical dressing comprising an antimicrobial silver compound and a method for enhancing wound healing. A medical dressing comprising a silver compound and being capable of releasing antimicrobial silver ion activity to a wound and, at the same time, being capable of absorbing wound exudate and also degrading enzymes from the wound initiates healing of chronic ulcers which for a long period has not responded by healing as a result of treatment with known wound dressings.
Claims9
A medical dressing comprising a silver compound and being capable of releasing antimicrobial silver ion activity to a wound and, at the same time, being capable of absorbing wound exudate and also degrading enzymes from the wound.
A method of enhancing healing of a wound comprising applying to the wound a dressing being capable of delivering an anti-microbially effective amount of silver ion activity to the wound bed and also being capable of removing wound exudate and degrading enzymes from the wound bed.
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