Reduced-pressure, abdominal treatment systems and methods
AssigneeKCI Licencsing, Inc.
InventorsChristopher Guy Coward, Mark Stephen James Beard, Colin John Hall, Ian James Hardman, Keith Patrick Heaton, James Joseph Sealy, David George Whyte
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Abstract
A reduced-pressure abdominal treatment system has an open-cavity treatment device for providing reduced-pressure treatment proximate a patient's abdominal contents; a deep-tissue closure device for applying a closing force on a deep-tissue wound on a patient's fascia; a surface-wound closure subsystem for providing a closing force on a surface wound on the patient's epidermis; and a reduced-pressure supply subsystem operable to develop a reduced pressure. Methods are also included.
Claims34
An abdominal treatment system comprising:
- an open-cavity treatment device for providing reduced-pressure treatment proximate a patient's abdominal contents, the open-cavity treatment device comprising a central connection member, a non-adherent drape, and a plurality of encapsulated leg members coupled to the central connection member and to the non-adherent drape, each of the plurality of encapsulated leg members having an interior portion and a leg manifold member disposed within the interior portion, and being formed with fenestrations operable to allow fluid flow into the interior portion;
- a deep-tissue closure device adapted to be deployed proximate to the open-cavity treatment device for applying a closing force on a deep-tissue wound on a patient's fascia, the deep-tissue closure device having a contractible matrix;
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- a reduced-pressure treatment subsystem for providing reduced-pressure treatment in the patient's abdominal cavity;
- wherein each of the leg manifold members comprise a plurality of interconnected flow channels.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.