The present disclosure relates to a medical device for curing a liquid bandage and a method for curing a liquid bandage using same. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the medical device for curing a liquid bandage includes: an input unit into which an external signal is input; and a light source unit including a diode that emits ultraviolet rays for curing the liquid bandage according to the inputted signal.

Devices, kits and methods described herein include skin treatments with a book-like packaging, applicator and/or tensioning device used to apply a dressing to a subject. The packaging, applicator and/or tensioning device is used to apply and/or maintain a strain in an elastic dressing, and has a first support, a second support, and a primary bending region therebetween, the primary bending region comprising a primary bending axis, with the dressing attached to the first and second supports of the device.

A wound dressing for use in the application of negative pressure to a wound, comprising a support member and a cover member positionable over the wound in use. The support member can have a first support element having a first portion aligned with a first axis and a body portion coupled with and extending away from the first portion, and a second support element having a first portion aligned with the first axis and a body portion coupled with and extending away from the first portion of the second support element. At least the body portion of each of the first support element and the second support element can be independently rotatable about the first axis. The support member can support at least a middle portion of the cover member above a surface of the wound so as to define a space between the wound cover and the wound.

A cover for a percutaneous connector extending through the skin of a patient. The cover includes a structure having an inner side and an outer side. A first separable connector is mounted to the structure and disposed entirely within the structure, the first separable connector being configured to detachably engage and electrically connect with the percutaneous connector. A second separable connector is mounted to the structure and electrically connected to the first separable connector, the second separable connector being exposed at the outer side of the structure and being configured to detachably engage and electrically connect with an external device. The inner side of the structure defines a skin-engaging surface at least partially surrounding the first separable connector and the percutaneous connector, when the first separable connector is engaged with the percutaneous connector.

An adhesive device used as a wound dressing, ingredient delivery device or IV hold-down in which inadvertent edge release of these devices along the periphery of the polymeric film layer is minimized when the handling layer, which is adhered to the polymeric film layer, is removed after application of the polymeric film layer to the patient.

A wound/bandage protector configured as a wrap, a sock/mitten, or a bandage may be made out of stretchable material. The wrap may have one or more fastening straps as well as possibly a first catch fastening surface. The sock/mitten may have a fastening strap and a sheath. The wrap, the sock/mitten, and the bandages may have apertures and aperture covers. In addition, the wound/bandage protectors as well as the bandages may have diamond or triangular gauze configurations with the gauze pad having three or four primary corners, the primary corners of the gauze pad in most instances being oriented towards edges of the body portion or length or width tangents of the body portion, preferably mid-points or mid-sections of the length or width tangents or body portion edges.

A protector assembly for protecting an injury and/or surgical wound includes a protector shell having a shell front side, a shell back side and shell circumferential edge where the protector shell has a size and shape that is larger than the injury and/or surgical wound and shaped to correspond to a portion of the body having the injury and/or surgical wound to thereby protect the injury and/or surgical wound from further injury. The protector assembly also includes a protector pad having a pad front side, a pad back side and a pad circumferential edge wherein the protector pad has a pad opening sized to circumscribe the injury and/or surgical wound, the pad front side being attached to the shell back side of the protector shell where the pad back side is between the injury and/or surgical wound and the protector shell.

Polyurethane material for indicating pH at a locus, preferably as indication of presence of microbes, comprising a polyurethane network having immobilised therein one or more hydrophilic copolymers, the or each said copolymer comprising:

hydrophilic monomer; and
indicating monomer, which provides an indication in response to a change in hydrophilic state of said hydrophilic monomer and/or copolymer;
characterised in that the or each copolymer further comprises one or a plurality of ionisable groups or moieties or polymerisable monomers having one or more characteristic pKa values in the range 5 to 10 and which are responsive to pH at the locus in the range pH 5 to pH 10
and in that hydrophilic state of hydrophilic copolymer is dependent on ionisation of said ionisable groups, moieties or monomers; kit and device comprising the material and process for preparation thereof; and use in detecting or sensing microbes or pH.

A bandage pulling tool has a thin elongate body and a hole extending transverse to a longitudinal axis of the thin elongate body proximate an end thereof. In use, a first end of a bandage is secured to the tool using the hole by passing a first end of the bandage through the hole for use as an anchor point to the tool. With the bandage thus secured to the tool in a position passing through the hole therein, the first end of the bandage can be passed from a first side of a body portion of an injured party to another behind the body portion using the elongated shape of the tool. Accordingly, a wrap around bandage can be applied to the patient with minimal, if any, movement of potentially injured areas compared to prior art techniques of manually feeding the bandage behind the injured party.

A Y-type gauze positioning rod is adapted to be disposed in a Y-type gauze so as to position the Y-type gauze to an affected region. The Y-type gauze positioning rod includes a Y-type flexible body having a holder and two supporting branches. The two supporting branches are connected to the holder and separated from each other. A

Y-type gauze positioning assembly is further provided.