ORTHOPEDIC CAST AND SPLINT BANDAGES WITH ENCAPSULATED HARDENING MEDIUM AND METHOD

摘要

A medical bandaging product that includes a flexible medical material including an elongate fabric, a reactive system, and microspheres. In certain aspects, a component of the reactive system is homogeneously impregnated into or coated throughout the flexible medical material without being encapsulated in the microspheres such that the reactive system remains stable and non-activated in the absence of an activating agent, and hardens upon activation by exposure to the activating agent to form a rigid, self-supporting structure. In this aspect, the microspheres are homogeneously impregnated into or coated throughout the flexible medical material, the microspheres encapsulate an activating agent and are configured to release the activating agent to form the rigid, self-supporting structure.

主权项

1. A medical bandaging product comprising an elongate fabric homogenously impregnated or coated with a reactive system including a plurality of microspheres, wherein the reactive system remains stable in the absence of an activating agent and hardens upon exposure to the activating agent, and wherein the activating agent is encapsulated in the plurality of microspheres.