Kci Usa, Inc.

Systagenix Wound Management (us), Inc.

Woundchek Laboratories (us), Inc.

Ethicon, Gmbh

Simon William Bayliff

Breda Mary Cullen

Deborah Addison

William Pigg

Paul Howard Lowing

Patrick Brosnan

Margaret Stedman

Hugh Semple Munro

Derek Silcock

Michelle Delbono

Richard Hoskins

Matthew Hannant

Michelle Del Bono

Susana S Garcia

Helen Burgess

Justin Barnes

Stephen J Irwin

Sylvia Lindsay-Watt

Methods of detecting a local infection, critical colonization, or infection in a wound, predicting wound healing in a wound, and detecting bacterial pathogenesis in a wound are provided.

Methods of prediction of wound healing

A wound dressing comprising: a water-absorbent fabric comprising at least about 10 wt. % of hydrogel-forming absorbent fibers based on the dry weight of the fabric; and an adhesion-resistant, water-permeable wound contacting surface textile layer that is substantially continuously bonded to at least one surface of said fabric. The surface textile layer may be formed by surface treatment of the fabric, or by bonding a suitable textile web to the surface of the fabric.

Hydrogel wound dressings exhibiting reduced fiber losses in use

The invention provides wound dressings comprising an absorbent (porous) hydrogel composition comprising a foam portion which comprises a flexible plasticized hydrophilic polymer matrix having an internal cellular structure, and a continuous portion which comprises a flexible plasticized hydrophilic polymer matrix having relatively continuous internal structure. The continuous portion of the hydrogel composition includes apertures providing fluid flow communication through the continuous portion between an external surface of the continuous portion and the foam portion whereby the foam portion can take up external water or other fluid into the cellular structure through the apertures of the continuous portion. The continuous portion of the hydrogel composition may be tacky to the skin, allowing its use as a bioadhesive.

Absorbent multilayer hydrogel wound dressings

A sample collection and testing device comprising: An elongate housing () having a first end and a second end and a longitudinal axis; an analytical element () retained in the housing; a sample collector assembly extending from the first end of the housing and comprising a sample collector () in fluid communication with the analytical element (); a swing arm () attached to the housing by a pivot fitting (), said swing arm having proximal and distal ends; and a cap () at the distal end of the swing arm (); wherein the device comprises a slide to allow limited linear movement of the cap () substantially along the longitudinal axis of the housing (), and wherein the pivot fitting () allows the swing arm to rotate about a pivot axis substantially perpendicular to the said longitudinal axis, whereby the swing arm () is movable between a sample collection configuration in which the cap () is remote from the sample collector () and a sample analysis configuration in which the cap () encloses the sample collector ().

Sample collection and testing device with swing arm

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Simon William Bayliff