Surgical sponge

Details Surgical sponge Surgical sponge

1986-01-06

1991-01-08

Rosenbaum, C. Fred

Surgery

Means and methods for collecting body fluids or waste material

Absorbent pad for external or internal application and...

A61F 1354

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049831739

ABSTRACT:
A surgical sponge comprising, a sheet of absorbent material comprising a plurality of layers of an open mesh gauze fabric having generally parallel woven spaced warp and filling yarns. The sheet has one or more spaced generally parallel tie-in yarns interwoven between the layers in at least one direction of the sheet, with a substantial number of the yarns in one layer generally parallel to the tie-in yarns being located intermediate the corresponding yarns in another layer of the sheet to define a staggered configuration of the sheet yarns, with the tie-in yarns limiting freedom of movement of the staggered woven yarns to retain them in place, and with the sheet being folded into a multiple ply configuration.

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