PH INDICATOR DRESSING

• Main Authors: JOHN KENNETH HICKS, EDWARD YERBURY HARTWELL, DOROTHY MCCULLOCH, VICTORIA JODY HAMMOND, MARK RICHARDSON, CARL SAXBY
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 16.05.2019
• Subjects: BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; CHEMICAL ASPECTS OF BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS, ORSURGICAL ARTICLES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF,TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, E.G. STENTS; DISINFECTION, STERILISATION, OR DEODORISATION OF AIR; FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; FIRST-AID KITS; FOMENTATION; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MATERIALS FOR BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS, OR SURGICALARTICLES; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR STERILISING MATERIALS OR OBJECTS INGENERAL; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; PROSTHESES; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS

To provide devices and methods related to wound dressings having pH indicators for monitoring the pH at a wound surface.SOLUTION: Example devices include a device comprising a surface configured to contact the wound and a pH indicator applied to the surface, where the pH indicator has a first color prior to the contact with a wound exudate and changes color as a function of the pH of the wound exudate.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 7 【課題】本願発明の目的は、創面でｐＨをモニタリングするためのｐＨインジケーターを有する創傷ドレッシングに関する装置および方法を提供することである。【解決手段】例示的装置には、創傷と表面に適用されるｐＨインジケーターとを接触させるように構成される表面を含み、ｐＨインジケーターが、創傷滲出液と接触する前の第１の色を有し、創傷滲出液のｐＨの関数として色を変化させる装置が含まれる。【選択図】図７