Wound cleansing apparatus with scaffold

Abstract From the Canadian patent

An apparatus for cleansing and applying therapy or prophylaxis to wounds in , which irrigant fluid containing a physiologically active material from a reservoir connected to a conformable wound dressing and wound exudate from the dressing are recirculated 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. A biodegradable scaffold underlies the dressing on the wound bed to promote tissue growth. The cleansing means (which may be a single-phase e.g. micro-filtration, system or a two-phase e.g. dialytic system) removes , materials deleterious to wound healing and the cleansed fluid, still , …