Abstract:
An absorbent fibrous material comprising fibers prepared by melt spinning, solvent spinning, dry spinning or electro spinning of a polymer composition having a water absorption capacity of at least 10g/g polymer composition and comprising a thermoplastic hydrophilic block copolymer as well as wound dressings comprising such absorbent fibrous material.
Abstract:
A medical dressing comprising a complex of silver and being capable of releasing antimicrobial silver ion activity, said complex comprising silver and a transition element of Group IV of the periodic system of elements enables a controlled release of silver ion activity to a wound bed.
Abstract:
A stabilised composition having antibacterial, antiviral and/or antifungal activity, said composition comprising silver ions and a ligand, characterised in that the composition comprises a complex of silver and a ligand selected from the group consisting of 5,5-disubstituted hydantoins in which the substituents do not comprise conjugated unsaturated bonds and barbituric acid and derivatives thereof stabilising silver ions against reduction to free silver in a hydrophilic environment, and that the composition has a solubility in water higher than 10 mg Ag/l is stable during sterilisation and retains the activity without giving rise to darkening or discoloration of the dressing during storage.
Abstract translation:一种具有抗细菌,抗病毒和/或抗真菌活性的稳定化组合物,所述组合物包含银离子和配体,其特征在于所述组合物包含银和选自5,5-二取代乙内酰脲的配体的配合物,其中 取代基不包含共轭不饱和键和巴比妥酸及其衍生物稳定银离子以在亲水环境中还原成游离的银,并且该组合物在水中的溶解度高于10mg Ag / l在灭菌期间是稳定的并保持活性 而不会在储存期间引起敷料变黑或变色。
Abstract:
A pump for pumping fluid matter from a treatment site in or on a living being comprises three compartments. A motor-driven pumping element is provided for generating a negative pressure within a wound cover at or near the treatment site, and a motor for providing a driving force to the pumping element is provided in the a first one of the compartments. The pumping element is comprised in a second compartment, and a container for collecting liquid pumped from the treatment site is comprised or integrated in a third compartment. The second compartment is detachably connected to the first and/or third compartment, and the third compartment is detachably connected to the first and/or the second compartment.
Abstract:
A device for stimulating the healing of a wound comprises a separating means having a fluid inlet and a gas outlet. The separating means may constitute a collecting container for collecting fluid pumped from the wound. A pump for applying negative pressure comprises pump head and a drive unit. The pump head is connected to the gas outlet of the separating means, and the pump head is detachably attached to the drive unit, so that in use the fluid inlet of the separating means is connected to a wound cover, e.g. via a conduit.
Abstract:
An absorbent wound care device comprising a wound contacting layer comprising an absorbent non-woven bi-component staple fibre material, said staple fibre material comprising fibres having at least one outside portion of highly hydrophilic material and least one inner core of a low- absorbing material, wherein the staple fibre material comprising fibres having at least one outside portion of highly hydrophilic material and least one inner core of a low-absorbing material constitutes above 50% of the fibrous material and wherein the absorbent material consists of mechanically intertwined fibres enables the use of an absorbent material comprising only fibres having at least one outside portion of highly hydrophilic material without having to rely on the presence of wicking fibres, which material is capable of absorbing liquid parts and slough from wound exudates without giving rise to gel blocking and also reduces of the risk of maceration due to wicking of moisture laterally in the plane of the wound to the neighbouring skin.
Abstract:
A medical dressing comprising a silver compound and being capable of releasing antimicrobial silver ion activity in the range of 50 - 10000 micrograms per cm2 dressing to a wound and, at the same time, being capable of absorbing more than 0.09 grams per cm2 dressing of wound exudate and also degrading enzymes from the wound initiates healing of chronic ulcers which for a long period has not responded by healing as a result of treatment with known wound dressings.
Abstract:
A composition capable of forming a coherent gel when contacted with an aqueous fluid, said composition comprising a water soluble polymer, said polymer, when dissolved in an aqueous fluid, forms a water insoluble gel, characterized in that said composition comprises a non-aqueous mixture of at least two water soluble polymers or a salt thereof, said polymers having opposite charges and forming, when dissolved in an aqueous fluid, a water-absorbing, water-insoluble, coherent gel.