A system for providing a force to a desired area on a curved body part of a person includes a dressing assembly shaped and configured to be placed on the desired area of the person, a releaseable circumferential member surrounding the curved body part that holds the dressing assembly against the desired area, a sealing subsystem for providing a fluid seal over the dressing assembly and the person's skin, and a reduced-pressure subsystem for providing a reduced pressure to the dressing assembly. When reduced pressure is supplied, the system generates the force against the desired area on the curved body part.

Proposed are a method of manufacturing a hemostatic medical material that has excellent biosafety and can be applied to various situations by controlling the decomposition rate as necessary, and a medical material manufactured thereby. The method includes pretreating a natural cellulose substrate by adjusting the pH of the substrate, causing the hemostatic agent to be adsorbed on the pretreated substrate, drying the substrate with the hemostatic agent adsorbed thereon, primarily modifying the dried substrate using monochloroacetic acid (MCA), secondarily modifying the primarily modified substrate using an organic acid aqueous solution, washing the secondarily modified substrate, and post treating the substrate by adjusting the pH of the washed substrate.

A medical wetness sensing device includes a base adapted to be disposed on a wearer of the medical wetness sensing device. The base includes a first electrical conductor and a second electrical conductor electrically insulated from the first electrical conductor. The first electrical conductor includes a hinge portion enabling a first portion of the first electrical conductor to deflect, at the hinge portion, relative to a second portion of the first electrical conductor. The medical wetness sensing device includes a controller electrically connected to the first electrical conductor and the second electrical conductor. The controller is configured to detect a presence or an absence of a medical fluid electrically connecting the first and second electrical conductors.

An elongate wound dressing for packing a wound is substantially planar and has a first longitudinal edge comprising at least one curved edge portion which is curved in the plane of the wound dressing.

A vented wound dressing barrier includes one or more membrane layers with a plurality of vents. The vents are cut along a perimeter of the vents through the one or more membrane layers. Each vent having a connection portion uncut relative to the one or more membrane layers thereby forming a hinge configured to allow the vents to open for drainage when exposed to fluid underlying the vented wound dressing barrier. The plurality of vents is each cut along the perimeter without removal of any of the membrane layer. The one or more membrane layers with the plurality of vents has a surface for covering a wound, the surface area in the absence of a fluid pressing on the vents having no openings or voids which reduce the surface area of a vented wound dressing barrier area covering a wound.

A wound product and a method of manufacturing the wound product is provided. The wound product comprises a first layer comprising a plurality of splittable fibres. At least some of the plurality of splittable fibres are split longitudinally along at least part of their length, and at least some of the plurality of splittable fibres are entangled.

A knit hemostatic bandage provided herein can include a continuous rayon fiber and a continuous glass fiber. The knit hemostatic bandage can have a gauge of between 10 and 30 stitches per inch. The knit hemostatic bandage can have a Young's modulus of elasticity of less than 50 MPa.

A smart nursing consumable includes an absorbent body and a sensor module. The absorbent body includes a water-absorbing layer. The sensor module is disposed above the water-absorbing layer and includes a plurality of wires. A physiological monitoring device employing the aforementioned smart nursing consumable is also provided.

Systems, methods, and apparatuses for treating a tissue site are described. In some embodiments, the system may include a pouch having an upstream layer, a downstream layer, and an absorbent member enclosed between the upstream layer and the downstream layer. The upstream layer and the downstream layer may each include a hydrophobic side and a hydrophilic side. The hydrophilic side of both the upstream layer and the downstream layer may be positioned facing the absorbent member. The hydrophobic side of both the upstream layer and the downstream layer may form a portion of an exterior surface of the pouch such that fluid incident on the pouch is distributed laterally along the exterior surface of the pouch before being absorbed by the absorbent member.

A wound bolster includes an inner non-adherent face, a compressible and expandable body, and an outer elastic face where the inner non-adherent face is configured for contact with a wound on a subject and the outer elastic face is configured, upon securing of the wound bolster to a periphery of the wound, to generate a compressive force within the compressible and expandable body in response to applied deformation, which is transmitted as a normal compressive force to the subject. A method of affixing a wound bolster to a subject includes: recording a circumference associated with an outer region of a wound area on a subject, altering a size of the wound bolster based on the recorded circumference to form an altered wound bolster, positioning the altered wound bolster on the wound area, and affixing an outer edge of the altered wound bolster to the periphery of the wound area.