Continent ostomate bandage
OwnerFrank S. Castellana, Keith T. Fergusoninventors
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Abstract
A bandage including a superabsorbent pad covered by a porous cover pad placed on a thin, flexible hydrocolloid adhesive layer leaving a portion of the adhesive layer around the pads as an adhesive border is disclosed. One side of the adhesive layer is laminated to a polymeric backing or non-woven fabric layer and a protective cover layer is applied over the pads and border portion. The protective cover layer may be silicone coated release paper and the bandage may be subjected to a vacuum thus forming the adhesive layer to the pads resulting in the border portion being substantially coplanar with the exposed surface of the cover pad overlaying the superabsorbent pad.
Claims4
A continent ostomate bandage comprising a flexible, hydrocolloid, adhesive layer having a plastic or non-woven fabric layer attached to one side thereof, a superabsorbent pad, smaller in area than said adhesive layer, attached to said adhesive layer on a side thereof opposite from said plastic or non-woven fabric layer, a porous cover pad larger in area than said superabsorbent pad but smaller than said adhesive layer, said porous cover pad overlaying said superabsorbent pad, a portion of said adhesive layer forming an adhesive border around said superabsorbent pad and cover pad and being adapted to adhere the bandage to the skin of said wearer, and a plastic cover overlaying said porous cover pad and attached to said border portion of said adhesive layer, said superabsorbent pad and said porous cover pad together having a predetermined thickness, said plastic cover comprising a molded cavity having a predetermined depth equal to or greater than said thickness and shaped to receive said pads.
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