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US 2020/0046956 A1Published application
Wound care method and system with one or both of vacuum-light therapy and thermally augmented oxygenation
AssigneeThermoTek, Inc.
InventorsOverton L. Parish, Niran Balachandran, Tony Quisenberry
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Abstract
A system for treatment of a wound area of a patient including a first treatment pad comprising a plurality of Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) for cleaning and exposing a wound area to ultraviolet light, a second treatment pad comprising removal ports for exposing the wound area to a negative pressure, and a control unit interoperably connected to the first and second treatment pads for providing a negative pressure and the ultraviolet light to the wound area.
Claims5
A method of treating a wound area, the method comprising:
- dressing the wound area with a therapy pad;
- administering vacuum therapy to the wound area via the therapy pad the vacuum therapy being administered to the wound area via a pressure switch that is fluidly coupled to the therapy pad and a vacuum source;
- concentrating gaseous oxygen via an oxygen concentrator that is fluidly coupled to the therapy pad;
- administering, the gaseous oxygen from the oxygen concentrator to the wound area via the pressure switch, the pressure switch being fluidly coupled to the oxygen concentrator;
- and.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.