METHOD FOR MAKING HYDROGEL WOUND DRESSINGS Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC A61L15/00 A61L15/22 A61L15/28 A61L26/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: present invention refers to medicine, particularly to a method for making hydrogel wound dressings of polyvinylpyrrolidone or its monomer, agar, distilled water, ethylene or propylene, polyglycols, silver using ionising radiation wherein a complex of cationic polysaccharide, preferably chitosan, and silver is prepared by mixing AgNO₃ with chitosan powder characterised by an average molecular weight of 40000 to 200000, previously degraded by irradiation with beam energy 10 MeV; the deposition is filtered, washed with distilled water and added to a mixture consisting of, wt %: 2-10% of polyvinylpyrrolidone or monomer, max. 5% of agar, at least 75% of distilled water and 1-3% of ethylene or propylene polyglycols, and gel prepared thereby is cross-linked by ionizing radiation of a dose of 20-30 kGy, preferentially 25 kGy.

EFFECT: provided high biological activity and long effective use of surgical dressings.

3 cl, 6 ex