Dressing and apparatus for cleansing the wounds

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A dressing and an apparatus comprising the dressing for cleansing the wounds in which an irrigant fluid from a reservoir connected to a conformable would dressing and would exudate from the dressing are moved by a device (which may be a single pump or two pumps) for moving fluid through a flow Path which passes through the dressing with a means for providing simultaneous aspiration and irrigation of the wound to provide a desired balance of fluid at a controlled nominal flow rate that removes materials deleterious to wound healing while distributing materials that are beneficial in promoting would healing over the wound bed.