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.
Claims1
A method of mitigating and/or preventing the onset of a pressure ulcer at an area of risk of developing a pressure ulcer comprising the step of:
- 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 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.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.