Electro-chemical Wound Dressing
This novel wound dressing combines an inherent automicrobial agent together with a capacity to conduct electric current. This allows controlled reduction of wound bioburden.
Inventor: Burd, Andrew | Tsang, Michael Wing Wai
Priority Number: US8343535B2
IPC Current: A61K000970 | A61F001300 | A61K000914 | A61K003332 | A61K003334 | A61K003338 | A61L001500 | A01N005916 | A01N005920
US Class: 424443 | 424445 | 424486 | 424618 | 424630 | 424641
Assignee Applicant: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Title: Wound healing dressing and methods of manufacturing the same
Usefulness: Wound healing dressing and methods of manufacturing the same
Summary: The hydrogel dressing is useful for covering or treating a wound (claimed) such as trauma, burn, surgical incision and a catheter insertion site.
Novelty: Hydrogel dressing useful for covering or treating wound e.g. trauma, burn and surgical incision, comprises matrix structure of cross-linked mixture and elastic sheet coated with elementary metal or ionic metal embodied in matrix
生物医学
医药成分
06/MED/227
Inventor(s): Professor Andrew BURD, Department of Surgery
香港
