Patent ID: 6620436
Filing Date: 2003-09-16
Classification: A61F,A61L

Abstract:
A mixing and dispensing package for applying a wound dressing product to a patient, comprising:a flexible container-body formed from superimposed upper and lower flexible walls that form a flexible pouch having first and second edges on opposite sides of the package, said flexible walls comprising two different sheets located in two portions of the package for permitting the introduction of different sterilizing agencies into said portions of the package where said two different sheets are located, said sheets including (a) a first flexible sheet for allowing the introduction therethrough of a first sterilizing agency, (b) a second sheet for allowing the introduction therethrough of a second sterilizing agency, and (c) said second sheet has a different composition from said first sheet, a pressure-rupturable seal between the superimposed walls of said package, said seal extending from the first edge of the package to the second edge to divide said package into two separate compartments, a dry wound dressing in one compartment, water in the other compartment, said pressure-rupturable seal being able to be forced open by manual pressure applied to the exterior of the package by pressing on the water-containing compartment of the package with the hands to increase the hydrostatic pressure in the water-containing compartment and thereby force the water through the rupturable seal into the dry wound dressing contained in said one compartment to form a fluid dispersion for being dispensed from the package onto the wound, whereby said dry wound dressing is sterilized by a first sterilizing agency introduced into the package through the first sheet and the water sterilized by a second sterilizing agency introduced into the package the second sheet.