Patent ID: 7658749

Claim:
A hypobaric wound shield for temporarily hermetically sealing an open surgical wound, the open surgical wound traversing through a skin layer and a fascia layer to expose an abdominal organ within a abdominal cavity, the open surgical wound defining a first skin side and a second skin side of the skin layer and a first fascia side and a second fascia side of the fascia layer, the partitioning of the first skin side with the second skin side and the first fascia side and the second fascia side define a wound space, the hypobaric wound shield comprising: a fluid absorbing material positioning within the wound space for absorbing a wound fluid; a flexible impermeable shield having an adhesive side and a non-adhesive side; said adhesive side of said flexible impermeable shield securing to the first skin side and the second skin side for sealing the open surgical wound; a drain tube extending between an input lumen and an output lumen for displacing said wound fluid; a mesentery in said flexible impermeable shield for sealing said drain tube and guiding said drain tube from the wound space through said flexible impermeable shield; and a vacuum device coupling to said output lumen of said drain tube for producing a negative pressure within the wound space.