Wound dressing and manufacturing method therefor
AssigneeMölnlycke Health Care AB
InventorsBengt W. Lindqvist, Stefan Areskoug, Thomas Fabo
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Abstract
A wound dressing (1) comprising a layer of absorbent foam material (2) which includes a pattern of holes (4). The holes open out on that side of the foam material which lies proximal to the wearer's skin when the dressing (1) is worn, and the layer of foam material is coated with a layer (3) of skin-adhering hydrophobic gel, wherein those end parts of the walls of the holes in the foam material that lie proximal to the wearer's skin when the dressing is worn are gel coated. A method of producing such a dressing is also disclosed.
Claims16
A wound dressing, comprising a layer of absorbent foam material which includes a pattern of holes, said holes opening out on that side of the foam material that lies proximal to the skin of a wearer when the dressing is worn, and the layer of foam material being coated with a layer of a skin-adhering hydrophobic gel;
- and wherein the walls of the holes in said foam material are coated with the gel at those end parts of the holes that lie proximal to the wearer's skin when the dressing is worn.
A method of producing a wound dressing comprising a layer of absorbent foam material which includes a pattern of holes, wherein the holes open out on that side of the foam material which lies proximal to the skin of a wearer when the dressing is worn, and the layer of foam material is coated with a layer of skin adhesive gel, and wherein end parts of walls of the holes in the foam material that lie proximal to the wearer's skin when the dressing is worn are gel coated, the method comprising placing a sheet of foam material on top of a layer of curable gel mixture, and then, after a given period of time, heating the gel mixture until the gel mixture has cured.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.