Surgical wound closure device

• US 20050034731A1
• Filed: 08/13/2003
• Published: 02/17/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 08/13/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ethicon Incorporated (Johnson & Johnson)
• Original Assignee: Ethicon Incorporated (Johnson & Johnson)
• Inventors: Rousseau, Robert A., Sung, An-Min Jason
• Application Number:
  US10/640,175
• Publication Number:
  US 20050034731A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 128/849
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/085 with adhesive layer
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 46/40 Drape material, e.g. laminates; Manufacture thereof
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 13/02 Adhesive bandages or dressings
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 13/023 wound covering film layers without a fluid retention layer
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2013/0057 with openable cover

Abstract

One embodiment includes a surgical wound closure device comprising a substrate having a proximal surface and a distal surface; a drape having a proximal surface and a distal surface, and being disposed proximally to said substrate; and an adhesive layer having a proximal surface and a distal surface; said drape being disposed releasably adherently to said distal surface of said adhesive layer. Another embodiment includes a surgical procedure comprising the steps of providing a surgical wound closure device comprising a substrate having a proximal surface and a distal surface, a drape having a proximal surface and a distal surface and being disposed proximally to said substrate, and an adhesive layer having a proximal surface and a distal surface, where said drape being disposed releasably adherently to said distal surface of said adhesive layer; positioning the proximal surface of said adhesive layer on the skin of a patient; separating said substrate from said drape and adhesive layer to expose said distal surface of said drape; making a surgical incision through said drape; performing a surgical procedure; removing said drape from said adhesive layer to expose said distal surface of said adhesive layer; aligning said substrate and said adhesive layer; and adhering said proximal surface of said substrate to said distal surface of said adhesive layer.

Claims