Patent ID: 7745681

Claim:
A narrow ribbon dressing for packing a cavity wound comprising fabric which includes a first web of gel-forming fiber needled to one side of a textile fiber scrim formed from a thermally-bonded nonwoven fabric consisting of thermoplastic fibres of continuous filament material, and a second web of said gel-forming fiber needled to an opposite side of said textile fiber scrim, wherein said scrim fabric has a weight in the range of between 20 g/m 2 and 80 g/m 2 , said first web of gel-forming fiber has a weight in the range of between 50 g/m 2 and 250 g/m 2 and wherein said first and second gel-forming fiber webs each comprise fibers entangled with said textile fiber scrim such that the resulting fabric forms a narrow ribbon, said ribbon having a width of as little as 0.5 cm, wherein said ribbon has a linear weight/width of at least 580 g/m 2 where the linear weight is given in g/m and the width is in meters.