Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Sustained variable negative pressure wound treatment and method of controlling same
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Application No.: US12812232Application Date: 2009-01-08
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Publication No.: US08366692B2Publication Date: 2013-02-05
- Inventor: Richard Scott Weston , Edward Yerbury Hartwell
- Applicant: Richard Scott Weston , Edward Yerbury Hartwell
- Agency: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP
- International Application: PCT/US2009/030497 WO 20090108
- International Announcement: WO2009/089390 WO 20090716
- Main IPC: A61F13/00
- IPC: A61F13/00 ; A61M35/00 ; A61M27/00

Abstract:
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for providing reduced or negative pressure, and more particularly cyclical reduced pressure, to treat a wound. The system can include a wound dressing, a fluid collection container, a suction source, filters, and conduits. In addition, the system can include a control device and sensors. The sensors may be configured to monitor certain physiological conditions of a patient such as temperature, pressure, blood flow, blood oxygen saturation, pulse, cardiac cycle, and the like. Application of cyclical reduced pressure between two or more values below atmospheric pressure may be synchronized with the physiological conditions monitored by the sensors. Certain embodiments of the system utilize an air reservoir and one or more valves and pressure sensors or gauges to allow for rapid cycling of the level of reduced pressure within the wound dressing between two or more reduced pressure values.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100298792A1 SUSTAINED VARIABLE NEGATIVE PRESSURE WOUND TREATMENT AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME Public/Granted day:2010-11-25
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