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Film for covering a wound

US8853486B2 · kind B2 · utility

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18Claims

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Assignee

Lohmann & Rauscher GmbH · AT

Inventors

Thomas Wild · Stuttgart, DE
Georg Wagner · Chieming, DE
Christian Rohrer · Linz, AT
Erik Steinlechner · Baden, AT

Key dates

Filing date	Apr 27, 2010
Grant date	Oct 7, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 10, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA61M1/916
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Embodiments of the invention relate to a wound covering having a first strip-like element forming a first periphery and a second strip-like element that faces away from the first periphery, runs approximately parallel thereto, forming a second periphery, and is joined to the first strip-like element, there being formed between the first inner periphery of the strip-like element, facing away from the first periphery, and a second inner periphery of the second strip-like element, facing away from the second periphery, a drainage chamber, the depth of which in a depth direction extending at right angles to the periphery ensures a capillary action on bodily fluids received in the drainage chamber, in particular exudates.

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