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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2005
Birgit Riesinger, Ostbevern, DE;
Birgit Riesinger, Ostbevern, DE;
Birgit Riesinger, Münster, DE;
Abstract
The invention relates to a device () for treating wounds of the human or animal body using a vacuum and having a gas-tight wound-covering element (), which, when placed in contact with the body of the patient, forms a wound space () between the respective wound and the wound-covering element, at least one connecting site (), which is in contact with the wound space (), an absorption body (), which is a layer, enclosed in an envelope, of a textile section, interspersed with super-absorbing particles, the envelope being permeable to liquids and having pores, the size of which does not exceed that of the super-absorbing particles. The absorption body (), which is to be inserted in the wound space (), has an initial volume, which enlarges in the course of the absorption process, and a final volume, so that, due to the size of the pores of the envelope, the absorbed wound secretions remain within the absorption body () and, with that, below the wound-covering element, until the absorption body is removed from the wound space.