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US 5,853,749 AGranted
Gel wound dressing
AssigneeScimat Limited
InventorTracey Susan Hobbs
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Abstract
This invention relates to a gel wound dressing material, and to techniques for preparing and using such a material. The invention provides a gel wound dressing in which the polymer component comprises a copolymer of a starch and a monounsaturated carboxylic acid or an ester or salt thereof, the copolymer being in the form of particles of which at least 70% by weight have a size of not more than about 100 um; and water. 1.
Claims26
A gel wound dressing which comprises a mixture of:
- (a) a water absorbent copolymer of a starch and a mono-unsaturated carboxylic acid or an ester or salt thereof, the copolymer being in the form of particles of which at least about 70% by weight have a size of not more than about 100 .mu.m;
- and
- (b) water.
A gel wound dressing contained in a syringe, the gel wound dressing comprising a mixture of:
- (a) a water absorbent polymer of a starch and a monosaturated carboxylic acid or an ester or salt thereof, the copolymer being in the form of particles of which at least about 70% by weight have a size of not more than about 100 .mu.m;
- and
- (b) water.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.