Wound cleansing apparatus with stress

Abstract From the Canadian patent

An apparatus for cleansing wounds with means for stressing the wound bed and optionally tissue surrounding the wound in which irrigant fluid 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. 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 containing , materials that are beneficial in promoting wound healing is returned to the , wound bed. …