Wound dressing

2:

• The wound dressing according to claim 1, wherein the needle-punched nonwoven is thermally treated.

3:

• The wound dressing according to claim 1, wherein the self-crimped fibers comprise fiber materials which are selected from the group of polyamides, polyesters, polyolefins, and mixtures or copolymers thereof.

4:

• The wound dressing according to claim 1, wherein the self-crimped fibers are produced from self-crimping fibers which have at least two components,
• wherein one component of the at least two components has a different shrinkage behavior under thermal treatment than the other component of the at least two components, and
• wherein an arrangement of the at least two components is configured to induce a three-dimensional deformation of the self-crimped fibers under thermal treatment and/or wherein the self-crimped fibers are manufactured from self-crimping fibers in which there is a different shrinkage behavior under thermal treatment of at least one fiber component with respect to at least one other fiber component.

5:

• The wound dressing according to claim 1, wherein the self-crimped fibers and/or the self-crimping fibers used as starting material are present as bicomponent fibers.

6:

• The wound dressing according to claim 1, wherein the self-crimped fibers and the superabsorbent fibers are staple fibers,
• wherein a staple fiber length of the self-crimped fibers and/or the superabsorbent fibers independently of each other is between 32 and 80 mm and/or the titer of the self-crimped fibers and/or the superabsorbent fibers independently of each other is between 1.7 and 20 dtex.

7:

• The wound dressing according to claim 1, wherein the superabsorbent fibers contain polymers selected from the group consisting of polymers of unsaturated carboxylic acids, graft copolymers of unsaturated carboxylic acids, modified cellulose, gel-forming polysaccharides other than modified cellulose, and mixtures thereof.

8:

• The wound dressing according to claim 1, wherein the needle-punched nonwoven also comprise further fibers selected from fibers including one or more of the following fiber raw materials:
• polyolefins, cellulose, regenerated cellulose, polyamides, polyacrylonitriles, elastanes, polyvinyl chlorides, polylactides, polyglycolides, polyesteramides, polycaprolactones, polyhexamethylene terephthalates, polyhydroxybutyrates, polyhydroxyvalerates, animal and/or vegetable natural fibers and/or polyesters.

9:

• The wound dressing according to claim 8, wherein the further fibers are hydrophilic fibers including one or more fiber raw materials selected from cellulose and regenerated cellulose.

10:

• The wound dressing according to claim 8, wherein the further fibers are present in a proportion of 5% to 30% by weight based on the total weight of the needle-punched nonwoven.

11:

• The wound dressing according to claim 1, wherein the needle-punched nonwoven has a needle density of 50 to 150 punctures/cm2.

12:

• The wound dressing according to claim 1, wherein the wound dressing has at least one further fiber layer which is arranged on at least one side of the needle-punched nonwoven, and wherein the at least one further fiber layer is connected to the needle-punched nonwoven by needle-punching.

13:

• The wound dressing according to claim 12, wherein the at least one further fiber layer is hydrophilic.

14:

• The wound dressing according to claim 1, wherein the wound dressing and/or the needle-punched nonwoven has a shrinkage from contact with air humidity after 24 hours of 0% to 10% and/or the needle-punched nonwoven has an absorption capacity for 0.9% aqueous sodium chloride solution from 1000% to 5000% and/or a plastic portion of the deformation ε(pl) of the wound dressing and/or the needle-punched nonwoven is longitudinally and/or transversely less than 12%, and/or the capillary height of 0.9% by weight NaCl solution of the wound dressing and/or the needle-punched nonwoven is less than 30 mm, longitudinally and/or transversely, preferably longitudinally and transversely.

(canceled)