Hollister, Inc.

James A Stupar

Michael R Lavender

Wagdi W Habib

George M Nowak

Ralph A Meyer

An external fixation pin entry site dressing, and the method of its application, in which an elongate body of soft, tearable, and compressible absorbent material has a longitudinal primary slit extending inwardly from one side of the body to about the longitudinal midline thereof and a plurality of pairs of transverse slits extending inwardly from opposite sides of the body and partially dividing the body into a multiplicity of separable segments. A user compares the length of a portion of a fixation pin, exposed between a mounting bracket and the skin at the entry point for the pin, with the thickness of one or more of the segments while the dressing is in an uncompressed condition, tears the dressing apart along one of the central septa connecting adjacent segments to separate from the block one or more segments having a total thickness in an uncompressed state greater than the exposed length of fixation pin, and then compresses the separated segment(s) and fits such separated segment(s) onto the fixation pin with the portion of the pin between the bracket and the skin being received in the primary slit.

Fixation pin entry site dressing and method

An occlusive dressing for care of skin wounds includes a skin contacting barrier layer and an overlying backing layer. The backing layer is formed from a thin sheet which is stretchable, and the barrier layer is formed from a composition having an elastomeric phase integrated by a cross-linked polymer network with a particular water-absorbing hydrocolloid phase dispersed therein.

Occlusive wound care dressing

A device for retaining a catheter in place at its point of entry into a patient's body. The device includes a resilient, adhesive barrier pad having an opening intended to be aligned with the fenestration in the body wall, the pad also having an entry slit leading to that opening, and a one-piece molded plastic support structure that includes a base secured to the pad, two (or more) flexible support arms projecting upwardly from the base at opposite sides of the pad opening, and a pair of elongated clamping bars at the upper ends of the support arms. In use of the device, a catheter is guided laterally through the entry slit to the opening of the barrier pad, the resilient pad is then adhesively secured to the patient with the edges of the pad defining the slit urged tightly together, and the clamping bars are latched together with the catheter clamped securely therebetween. The method of forming such a catheter retention device is also disclosed.

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Crystal Lake, IL, United States of America

James A Stupar