Medical dressing with semi-peripheral delivery system
AssigneeBristol-Myers Squibb Company
InventorFrank S. Castellana
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Abstract
In accordance with the present invention novel medical dressing systems and methods are disclosed using a semiperipheral support design which provides at least one conformal, unsupported dressing edge upon application. The dressing system disclosed herein comprises a backing layer, an adhesive material overlying the backing layer and a release liner overlying the adhesive, wherein said medical dressing system further comprises a final dressing portion and a semiperipheral support portion partially surrounding said dressing portion and said support portion being partially defined by a separation, said dressing portion being further defined by at least one unsupported edge, said one or more unsupported edges extending from a first end to a second end of said semiperipheral support portion.
Claims18
A medical dressing system comprising a backing layer, an adhesive layer overlying said backing layer and a release liner overlying a skin-contacting surface of said adhesive layer, said dressing system further comprising a final dressing portion with a selectively removable release liner portion, said final dressing portion being inward of, and partially defined by, a continuous semiperipheral support portion partially surrounding said final dressing portion, said semiperipheral support portion being separable from said final dressing portion and providing support of the edges of said final dressing portion, said edges of said final dressing portion being surrounded by said continuous semiperipheral support portion such that the final dressing portion is prevented from folding upon itself during application, said final dressing portion further defined by at least one unsupported edge extending from a first to a second end of said semiperipheral support portion, which unsupported edge is substantially more comformable than said supported edges during application.
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