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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 17, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Duncan H Haynes, Miami, FL (US);
Ben H Bodeker, Burtonsville, MD (US);
Mark D Kline, Rockville, MD (US);
Assignee:
The Unites States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army, Washington, DC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F / ; A61L / ; A61K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
424422 ; 424423 ; 424424 ; 424425 ; 424426 ; 424427 ; 424443 ; 424444 ; 424445 ; 424450 ; 606228 ; 606230 ; 606231 ;
Abstract
A surgical implant or external wound dressing which functions as both a hemostat and a device to safely and effectively deliver any of a number of pharmaceuticals to targeted tissue at a controlled rate is disclosed. The device generally comprises a carrier in the form of fibers, sutures, fabrics, cross-linked solid foams or bandages, a pharmaceutical in solid micoparticulate form releasably bound to the carrier fibers, and a lipid adjuvant which aids the binding of the microparticles to the fibers as well as their function in the body.