Skin barrier strip having triangular cross section
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1. A strip of sticky, pliant, stretchable, moisture-absorbing and skinfriendly skin barrier material having both wet and dry tack, said strip being of a general uniform cross section throughout its length;
- said cross section being generally that of a triangle having at least two unequal sides.
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An elongate rectilinear strip of skin barrier material is disclosed, such strip being of generally uniform triangular cross section through its length, such triangle having at least two, and preferably three, unequal sides. The strip may be cut to desired length and formed, stretched and/or molded by a user into a generally circular shape or into some other shape that extends about and follows the outline of a wound or stoma.
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1. A strip of sticky, pliant, stretchable, moisture-absorbing and skinfriendly skin barrier material having both wet and dry tack, said strip being of a general uniform cross section throughout its length;
- said cross section being generally that of a triangle having at least two unequal sides.
- View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15)
- 13. A method of using a strip of sticky, pliant, stretchable, moisture-absorbing skin barrier material having generally uniform cross section throughout its length with said cross section being generally that of a triangle having at least two unequal sides, comprising the steps of orienting said strip so that it will project a selected distance from a skin or wound surface when one of said sides is adhered to said surface, and thereafter adhering a wafer having a layer of adhesive skin barrier material to said surface, with said oriented triangular strip interposed between said surface and said skin barrier layer of said wafer.
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