Inventors:
Elizabeth Recupero - Lambertville NJ, US
International Classification:
A61K009/70, B32B027/04, B32B027/12
Abstract:
A window dressing has a self-contained, ready to use blood clotting agent. It includes a top element, a middle element, a bottom element, and at least one clotting agent located on the bottom of the middle element. The top element has a top and a bottom and is of a predetermined shape with a first perimeter distance. By “perimeter distance” is meant the measured perimeter. The top element has a central cut-out area with a second predetermined distance, the first perimeter distance being greater than said second perimeter distance, so as to establish a window opening. The middle element has a top and a bottom, and is a clear polymer window with a predetermined size, shape, and window perimeter distance greater than said second perimeter distance of the top element so that it will fit into the window opening of the top element and overlap the inside edges of it. This middle element is the window and is attached to the bottom of the top element. The bottom element has a top and a bottom and has a central cut out area. The top of the bottom element is attached to one of the top element and the middle element or both, at their bottom(s.). In preferred embodiments, all elements are sterile and the middle element is a water impermeable clear polymer material that acts both as a window and as a blood containment layer. The clotting is agent attached to the bottom of the middle element and within the cut out of the bottom element.