Patent ID: 7276247

Claim:
An absorbent dressing comprising a crosslinked hydrophilic gel absorbent layer comprising: a) a first component oligomer comprising a plurality of polymerized monomer units having pendent hydrophilic poly(alkylene oxide) groups, and pendent photoinitiator groups; and b) a hydrophilic poly(alkylene oxide) crosslinking agent of the formula: Z-Q-CH(R 1 )—CH 2 —O—(CH(R 1 )—CH 2 —O) m —CH(R 1 ) —CH 2 -Q-Z, wherein Z is a polymerizable ethylenically unsaturated moiety, R 1 is a H or a C 1 to C 4 alkyl group, and m is from 20 to 500, and Q is a divalent linking group selected from —O—, —NR 1 —, —CO 2 — and —CONR 1 —.