Patrick Lewis Blott,Bryan Greener,Edward Yerbury Hartwell,Tina Michelle Walker,Julian Lee-Webb,Derek Nicolini,Robin Paul Martin
申请号:
US12762250
公开号:
US08128615B2
申请日:
2010.04.16
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2012
代理人:
摘要:
An apparatus for cleansing and applying therapy or prophylaxis to wounds, in which irrigant fluid containing a physiologically active material from a reservoir connected to a conformable wound dressing and wound exudate from the dressing are recirculated by a device for moving fluid through a flow path which passes through the dressing and a means for fluid cleansing and back to the dressing. A biodegradable scaffold underlies the dressing on the wound bed to promote tissue growth. The cleansing means (which may be a single-phase, e.g. micro-filtration, system or a two-phase, e.g. dialytic system) removes materials deleterious to wound healing, and the cleansed fluid, still containing materials that are beneficial in promoting wound healing, is returned to the wound bed. The dressing, an assembly comprising the dressing and scaffold, and a method of treatment using the apparatus.