Hemorrhage management system Patent uri icon

abstract

  • An embodiment includes a wound dressing comprising: a shape memory polymer (SMP) foam, including open cells, having first and second states; and a hydrogel (HG) included within the cells; wherein (a) in a first position a composite, including the SMP foam and the HG, is configured to be located proximate a hemorrhagic tissue with the SMP foam in the first state; (b) in a second position the composite is configured to be expanded to the second state against the hemorrhagic tissue when the SMP foam is plasticized at 37 C. depressing a glass transition temperature (Tg) of the SMP foam to below 25 C. Other embodiments are described herein.

author list (cited authors)

  • Maitland, D. J., Landsman, T. L., Touchet, T. J., Cosgriff-Hernandez, E. L., & Wilson, T. S.

complete list of authors

  • Maitland, Duncan J||Landsman, Todd Lawrence||Touchet, Tyler Joseph||Cosgriff-Hernandez, Elizabeth L||Wilson, Thomas S

publication date

  • April 2019