Modular bandage
AssigneeAugustine Medical, Inc.
InventorsPaul Leslie Knutson, Scott Douglas Augustine, John Paul Rock
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Abstract
A modular bandage for treating wounds located on highly contoured, non-planar regions of a person includes a standoff for placement near the wound, and a sheet of material for forming a sealed environment over the wound in conjunction with the standoff. The modular bandage may further include a heater to thermally regulate the sealed environment formed by the standoff and the sheet of material. A sheet of material for such a bandage may include various uniform or compound structures.
Claims12
A method for treating a wound, the method comprising:
- providing a flexible standoff having a plurality of removable sections;
- removing one or more of the plurality of removable sections from the standoff to form an opening in the standoff;
- placing the flexible standoff near the wound such that the shape and area of the opening completely surround the wound;
- and
- attaching a flexible sheet of material over the standoff and to skin near the wound to form a treatment volume about the wound.
A modular bandage for treating a wound, the bandage comprising:
- a standoff with an outside margin and an adhesive on at least one surface;
- the standoff including a plurality of removable sections, one or more of the plurality of removable sections for being removed to form an opening in the standoff having an area greater than the area of the wound;
- a flexible sheet of material for extending over and outside the margin of the standoff;
- and,
- an attachment means for attaching the sheet to skin outside the margin of the standoff.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.