A dressing for application to human or animal skin and/or to medical devices, comprising a fixing web provided with an adhesive on a fixing surface, covering means removably attached to the fixing surface, and support means connected to the covering means and removably attached to an outer surface of the fixing web facing away from the fixing surface, wherein the outer surface has an exposed shaping surface which is at least partially surrounded by the support means.

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 dressing for application to human or animal skin and/or to medical devices, comprising a fixing web provided with an adhesive on a fixing surface, covering means removably attached to the fixing surface, and support means connected to the covering means and removably attached to an outer surface of the fixing web facing away from the fixing surface, wherein the outer surface has an exposed shaping surface which is at least partially surrounded by the support means.