Inventors:
Robert Casola - Naples FL, US
Warren Parkhurst - North Fort Myers FL, US
International Classification:
A61B 19/00
Abstract:
A system and method of wound therapy treatment using differential subatmospheric pressures applied to the wound which are calculated to be at least the substantially optimum of such pressures after considering various wound conditions, and either continually or at intervals recalculating the best of such pressures to use. A control center contains all of the equipment for doing this, including a computer program. There are several different parts to the system which are important to the invention, some of which may also be considered to be individually patentable. This includes the computer program, the wound dressing features such as maintaining a seal around the wound by use of the differential subatmospheric pressure at the wound and also on the underside of the dressing that covers the wound, shaped foam or sponge-like wound fillers that are a part of the dressing, and are covered by the seal blanket of the dressing. These shaped devices fit the wound better than the current practice does, maintain their placement in the wound, and therefore do not permit tunnels or fistulas to develop inside the wound during the vacuum treatments of the wound.