Negative-Pressure Therapy Dressing With Expandable Depth

Abstract

Disclosed embodiments relate to dressings for treating a tissue site with negative pressure. Some dressing embodiments may be configured to allow the depth of the dressing to be expandable. For example, dressing embodiments may comprise a segmented manifold having one or more vertical expansion joints between segments of the manifold. Some embodiments may comprise a first layer adjacent to a first surface of the manifold and a second layer adjacent to a second surface of the manifold. In some embodiments, the first layer may comprise one or more folds configured to extend between adjacent segments, and the second layer may also comprise one or more folds configured to extend between adjacent segments; and the folds in the first layer may match the folds in the second layer to jointly form the vertical expansion joints. Additionally disclosed are other apparatus, dressings, systems, and methods.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.