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US 8,404,921 B2Granted
Wound dressing
AssigneeConvatec Technologies Inc.
InventorsBryony Jayne Lee, Janette Rogers
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a wound dressing and in particular a wound dressing for application to the sacrum of a patient. The wound dressing is an absorbent pad having one or more lines about which the dressing can fold.
Claims12
A wound dressing for use on contoured areas of the body comprising:
- a gel forming absorbent pad having one or more cut lines extending partly or wholly through a thickness of the absorbent pad from the surface which in use faces the wound the dressing being foldable about the one or more cut lines, the absorbent pad being capable of absorbing exudate;
- and
- a flexible adhesive layer on a non-wound contacting side of the absorbent pad;
- and
- wherein the absorbent pad is smaller in area than the adhesive layer so that a peripheral rim of the adhesive layer is left exposed which in use adheres the dressing to the skin surrounding the wound a transmission layer on the non-wound contacting side of the adhesive layer and a keying layer which bonds the absorbent pad to the transmission layer including in between the cut line.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.