US 12,246,125 B2
Abdominal dressing with user selection of fascial closure force profile
Christopher B. Locke, Bournemouth (GB); and Timothy Mark Robinson, Wimborne (GB)
Assigned to Solventum Intellectual Properties Company, Maplewood, MN (US)
Appl. No. 17/258,360
Filed by Solventum Intellectual Properties Company, Maplewood, MN (US)
PCT Filed Jul. 9, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/040930
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 6, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/014178, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 16, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/697,181, filed on Jul. 12, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0268166 A1, Sep. 2, 2021
Int. Cl. A61M 1/00 (2006.01); A61F 13/05 (2024.01); A61F 13/14 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 1/916 (2021.05) [A61F 13/05 (2024.01); A61F 13/148 (2013.01); A61M 1/915 (2021.05)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) device for a deep abdominal wound, the NPWT device comprising:
a body comprising a porous material having a first compressive profile, the body including a plurality of removable portions supported by a substrate portion of the body, wherein each of the plurality of removable portions are individually surrounded by perforations or cuts in the substrate portion of the body such that the substrate portion of the body separates and surrounds the plurality of removable portions, none of the removable portions being surrounded by the perforations or cuts defining another of the removable portions, the substrate portion defining a free perimeter which surrounds all of the plurality of removable portions, each of the removable portions configured to define a void surrounded by the substrate portion of the body when removed, the plurality of removable portions configured to be selectively removed to form a pattern of voids within the substrate to transform the first compressive profile of the body into a second compressive profile based on the pattern of voids.