Systagenix Wound Management (us), Inc.

Ethicon, Gmbh

Kci Usa, Inc.

Johnson & Johnson Medical Gmbh

Systagenix Wound Management IP Co B.v.

David Greenhalgh

Breda Mary Cullen

Deborah Addison

Alicia Essler

Sarah-Jayne Gregory

Alicia Esseler

A wound dressing material may include a polymeric substrate, a silver salt, and a dyestuff to photostabilize the silver salt. The substrate may include collagen and/or oxidized regenerated cellulose complexed to Ag+, and the dyestuff may, for example, be an aniline or acridine dye. Also disclosed are methods of making such materials, and wound dressings that include such materials.

Antioxidant and antimicrobial wound dressing materials

A wound dressing material comprising a polymeric substrate, a silver salt, and a dyestuff to photostabilize the silver salt. The substrate may comprise collagen and/or oxidized regenerated cellulose complexed to Ag, and the dyestuff may for example be an aniline or acridine dye.

The invention provides a wound dressing material comprising a complex of an anionic polysaccharide with silver, wherein the material comprises from about 0.1 wt. % to about 3 wt. % of silver. Also provided are wound dressings comprising such materials, and the use of such materials in medicine.

Wound dressing materials comprising complexes of anionic polysaccharides with silver

A wound dressing material comprising a polymeric substrate, a silver salt, and a dyestuff to photostabilize the silver salt. The substrate may comprise collagen and/or oxidized regenerated cellulose complexed to Ag, and the dyestuff may for example be an aniline or acridine dye. Also provided are methods of making such materials, and wound dressings comprising such materials.

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