Patent ID: 7093599

Claim:
A health care device comprising a gel article selected from a mask, a pad use in wound healing, a pad use for compression at a needle injection site to prevent injury to a blood vessel, a blood bag, a tubing for medical fluids, a tubing as one or more parts of a medical fluid sets, a male and female tubing connectors, and a needle projector sheath; said gel article made from a gelatinous elastomer composition comprising: (i) 100 parts by weight of one or more of a hydrogenated poly(styrene-isoprene/butadiene-styrene) block copolymer(s) and from (ii) about 300 to about 1,600 parts by weight of a plasticizing oil; and in combination with or without (iii) a selected amount of one or more polymers or copolymers of poly(styrene-butadiene-styrene), poly(styrene-butadiene) n , poly(styrene-isoprene-styrene) n , poly(styrene-isoprene) n , poly(styrene-ethylene-propylene), poly(styrene-ethylene-propylene-styrene), poly(styrene-ethylene-butylene-styrene), poly(styrene-ethylene-butylene), poly(styrene-ethylene-propylene) n , poly(styrene-ethylene-butylene) n , polystyrene, polybutylene, poly(ethylene-propylene), poly(ethylene-butylene), polypropylene, or polyethylene, wherein said selected copolymer is a linear, radial, star-shaped, branched or multiarm copolymer, wherein n is greater than one; said gel article formed by injection molding, extruding, spinning, casting, or dipping of said gelatinous elastomer composition.