Bristol-Myers Squibb Compnay

Convatec Technologies, Inc.

E. R. Squibb Sons, Inc.

Patrick Gerard Linnane

Helen Shaw

Bryan Griffiths

Stephen M. Bishop

Michael J. Lydon

Stephen S Bishop

Helen Louise Shaw

Elizabeth Jacques

Simon Mark Adams

Michael James Lydon

June Gladman

Peter M Mahoney

David C Pritchard

Steven M Bishop

John Charles Fenton

June Michaela Gladman

Stephen Bishop

Patrick G Linnane

Anne Elizabeth Howells

Pter Michael Mahoney

David Colin Pritchard

Stephen Mark Bishop

Stephen M Bishop

Provided, in one embodiment, is a vacuum wound dressing for covering a wound bed comprising: a wound contact layer comprising a fibrous blend or fibrous material that forms a cohesive gel when wetted by wound exudate; a source of vacuum situated to be separated from the wound bed by the wound contact layer; and a vacuum sealing layer covering the wound contact layer and adapted to retain relative vacuum in the wound contact layer, wherein (i) the dressing is essentially missing a non-gelling, foam layer in which the source of vacuum is situated or (ii) the vacuum sealing layer comprises as an outer layer a foam layer.

Vacuum wound dressing

A material for use as a wound dressing, the material being in the form of a roll and comprising gel forming fibers and the material having lines of longitudinal stitching.

Wound dressing material

A body shaped wound dressing wherein the dressing is a knitted or woven garment comprising a cellulosic yarn, which garment has been carboxymethylated at least in parts of its wound contacting surface.

Carboxymethylated cellulosic wound dressing garment

A multi layered wound dressing which comprises an adhesive layer, an absorbent layer overlying said adhesive layer on the surface furthest from the wound, and a moisture transmitting cover layer overlying the absorbent layer, the dressing having a total thickness of less than 1.5 mm.

Multi-layered wound dressing

A multi layered wound dressing for use on wounds producing high levels of exudate, the dressing comprising a transmission layer having a high MVTR; an absorbent core capable of absorbing and retaining exudates; and a wound contacting layer which transmits exudate to the absorbent core, the absorbent core and wound contacting layer limiting the lateral spread of exudate in the dressing to the region of the wound.

Multi layered wound dressing

Wound dressing

A multi layered wound dressing comprising: (a) an adsorbent layer having high absorbency but low lateral wicking rate, and (b) a transmission layer having a high moisture vapor transmission rate overlying the side of said absorbent layer furthest from the wound.

A wound dressing comprises a blend of at least two types of discrete fibers wherein one discrete fiber is of a modified cellulose gel-forming material and a second discrete fiber is of another type of gel-forming material such as an alginate.

A novel wound dressing includes a fibrous absorbent layer for absorbing wound exudate, an odor layer for absorbing odor and a barrier layer interposed the fibrous absorbent and barrier layers. Preferably the barrier layer is vacuum perforated and the fibrous absorbent layer is of highly absorbent fibres capable of absorbing 25 grams of exudate per gram of dressing.

Multilayered wound dressing

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Chester, United Kingdom

Bryan Griffiths