Patent ID: 8551519

Claim:
A surgical article or component thereof, comprising: a polymer selected from the group consisting of: a polyurethane having a repeating unit of Formula IA, wherein R w is a polyol; a polyurea having a repeating unit of Formula IA, wherein R w is a diamine; a polyamideurethane having a repeating unit of Formula IA, wherein R w is an amide-diol; and a polyureaurethane having a repeating unit of Formula IB, wherein R w is a polyol and R x is a diamine: wherein: R is alkylene-[C(R 4 )(R 5 )] s -alkylene-, wherein: (1) one or more of the —CH 2 — moieties in one or more alkylene chain portions of R are optionally replaced by —O— or —S—; or (2) one or more of the —CH 2 CH 2 — moieties in the alkylene chain portions of R are optionally replaced by —C(═O)O— or —OC(═O)—; each R 1 is independently [—C(R 2 )(R 3 )] p —Z; each Z is independently selected from the group consisting of: alkoxy, aralkyloxy, —C(═O)—H, halogen, —C(═O)—OH, and —NO 2 ; each R 2 and R 3 is independently H or alkyl; R 4 is selected from the group consisting of: H, OR 6 , and CH 2 OR; R 5 is H or CH 2 OR; each R 6 is independently: each X is independently —CH(CH 3 )—C(═O)—O— or —(CH 2 ) y —C(═O)—O—; each Y is independently —O—C(═O)—CH(CH 3 )— or —O—C(═O)—(CH 2 ) y —; each a is independently an integer from 1 to 6; n is an integer from 0 to 4; p is an integer from 0 to 10; s is the integer 0 or 1; and each y is independently an integer from 1 to 24.