An adhesive article that remains securely bonded to a substrate until a stimuli is applied. The article may be embodied as an adhesive tape, a bandage, or as other articles. The stimuli may be a change in temperature or application of a reduction that causes a structure within the article to break, creak, or otherwise disrupt to expose the adhesive to a solvent, such as via a difference in Coefficient of Thermal Expansion (CTE) or by exposing the article to a glass transition temperature.

Provided herein is a system and method for coupling a wearable therapy system to a dressing and detaching the wearable therapy system from the dressing. One aspect provides a system including a drape with a switchable adhesive layer and a therapy system adhered to the drape via the switchable adhesive layer. The therapy system includes one or more radiation sources that can emit radiation wavelengths (e.g., light or electromagnetic waves) to impinge upon the adhesive and deactivate the adhesive when it is desired to remove the therapy system from the drape.

A protective pad to fit around a portion of at least one of a breast, a nipple, and an areola of a user, the protective pad including a main body to contact at least a portion of the breast of the user, and a protective dome disposed on a center portion of the main body to protect at least one of the breast, the nipple, and the areola.

The present disclosure relates to a two-component medical device for closing a wound or incision. The two-component device comprising a first and second component, each comprising an adhesive-backed anchoring member having one edge referred to as the wound edge. The adhesive-backed anchoring members are produced from a polymeric film sheet. Disclosed are instances wherein the adhesive-backed anchoring members are characterized by the presence of one or more discontinuities in the polymeric film sheet.

A wound closure device and a method of its use are disclosed. The wound closure device comprises a wound closure strip, the wound closure strip comprising a wound-facing side and a top side, the wound-facing side comprises an adhesive applied over at least a portion of the wound facing side of the wound closure strip and a non-symmetric, two-part release liner assembly detachably adhered to the adhesive, the release liner assembly comprising a first section and a second section with the second section comprising a wound closure strip-free portion forming a tab. In an alternate embodiment, the device is multi-segmented and the wound closure strip may be coextensive with the release liner assembly.

An apparatus for cleansing wounds, in which wound exudate is removed from a wound bed and selectively cleansed and returned to the wound. The cleansing means removes materials deleterious to wound healing, and the cleansed fluid, still containing materials that are beneficial in promoting wound healing, is returned to the wound bed. The associated wound dressing and cleansing means are conformable to the wound, and may have irrigant fluid circulated from a reservoir by a device for moving fluid through a flow path which passes through the dressing and a means for fluid cleansing and back to the dressing.

An adhesive tape (1) comprises a base material layer, an adhesive layer, and a release material layer, wherein two edges (11 and 12) extending in the longitudinal direction of the adhesive tape include parallel portions (11a and 12a), the length of one of the two edges (11 and 12) is greater than the length of the other, the ends of the two edges (11 and 12) are connected to the ends of two other edges (13 and 14), and two angles formed between the longer edge of the two edges (11 and 12) extending in the longitudinal direction and the two other edges (13 and 14) are acute angles.

A sponge including one or more hemostatic agents and one or more binding agents. At least one of the hemostatic agents is a pregelatinized potato starch. The collective percentage by weight of the one or more hemostatic agents is within the range of approximately one eighth to approximately sixteen times as great as the collective percentage by weight of the one or more binding agents.

A dressing for treating a tissue site with negative pressure, a sealing tape, methods of use and methods of manufacturing the sealing tape are described. The dressing includes a tissue interface configured to be positioned adjacent to the tissue site and a sealing member configured to be positioned over the tissue interface and the tissue site to form a sealed environment. The dressing also includes a sealing tape having a carrier layer having a first side and a second side, a silicone adhesive layer bonded to the first side of the carrier layer, and an acrylic adhesive layer bonded to the second side of the carrier layer. A plurality of holes extend through the silicone adhesive layer, the acrylic adhesive layer, and the carrier layer. A first release liner is coupled to silicone adhesive layer, and a second release liner is coupled to the acrylic adhesive layer.

A conformable adhesive bandage is disclosed including a central body, a plurality of bandage limbs including an adhesive coating disposed on a first side of the conformable adhesive bandage, and a plurality of flexion sites, each of the plurality of flexion sites inflecting inward into the central body or the plurality of bandage limbs. In one embodiment, the plurality of flexion sites is disposed at a plurality of vertices along the central body between adjacent bandage limbs of the plurality of bandage limbs, the plurality of flexion sites inflecting radially inward at the plurality of vertices into the central body. In another embodiment, is the plurality of flexion sites includes a plurality of central body flexion sites disposed at a plurality of vertices along the central body between adjacent bandage limbs, and a plurality of bandage limb flexion sites disposed along at least one of the plurality of bandage limbs.