Patent ID: 6613953
Filing Date: 2003-09-02
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
A wound treatment device for a skin wound, comprising:a. a wound treatment bandage adapted to overlie a wound on a person's skin, the bandage having a peripheral edge spaced away from the skin wound so that the bandage completely covers the wound; b. a flexible insulative-conductive covering for said bandage, the flexible insulative-conductive covering having inner and outer layers, said inner layer being adapted to overlie the bandage and healthy areas of a person's skin surrounding the wound, said outer layer being adhered to said inner layer so as to completely conceal said inner layer when said covering is in place on the bandage; c. said inner layer being made of a thermally conductive material adapted to be in direct contact with the person's skin for conducting human body heat from the healthy areas of the skin along said inner layer into the bandage; d. said outer layer being made of a heat insulating material for preventing body heat from escaping from said inner layer; and e. said outer layer having a surface area that is at least as large as the surface area of said inner layer; f. whereby said outer layer completely covers said inner layer, and the inner layer surface of said flexible covering having a surface area that is several times the surface area of the wound treatment bandage such that heat flows from healthy areas of the person's skin along the thermally conductive inner layer, to maintain the bandage at a temperature that is approximately the same as that of the healthy skin surrounding the wound.