Drug – bio-affecting and body treating compositions – Preparations characterized by special physical form – Web – sheet or filament bases; compositions of bandages; or...
Patent
1997-02-03
1998-02-17
Page, Thurman K.
Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions
Preparations characterized by special physical form
Web, sheet or filament bases; compositions of bandages; or...
424400, 424484, A61L 1500
Patent
active
057189161
ABSTRACT:
A composition sodium alginate which is capable of being formed into an insoluble alginate salt in a mold or dish which insoluble alginate salt may be frozen and lyophilized resulting in an alginate foam product which has utility in wound management as a dressing, in surgical, and implant procedures. The insoluble alginate salt thus formed may also be prepared as a coercive mixture or covalent-link mixture with insolubilizing chemical agents which thus provide a product having utility as a medical dressing, in surgical, and implant procedures, which can retain their integrity in or on tissues over extended periods of time and a method of making the same.
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Page Thurman K.
Shelborne Kathryne E.
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