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Thank you for your continued support of PolyMem ® QuadraFoam ® dressings. PolyMem’s success is due to those of you who use our products and understand the value they offer, especially in this tough economy.
As you well know, primary dressings are an important part of the wound healing process. Clinicians often select hydrogels and alginates as their primary dressing. For tunneling wounds, clinicians may also select ribbon gauze with or without povidone iodine. These types of dressing are often difficult to apply and remove and require manual wound bed cleansing and irrigation at each dressing change, which is an extremely painful and time-consuming process that disturbs the wound bed and retards healing. Many of you in the wound care community have told us that there ought to be an easier, more cost-efficient and time-efficient way to help close tunneling wounds.
At Ferris Mfg. Corp., we heard the wound care community’s request for a solution to these challenges and in response have added PolyMem Wic® Silver® Rope to the QuadraFoam primary dressing family, which currently includes PolyMem Wic and PolyMem Wic Silver. Excellent results have been reported by those in the wound care community who have had the opportunity to try PolyMem Wic Silver Rope.
Sincerely,
Roger Sessions, D.O., FACEP
Chairman and CEO
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As a healthcare professional, you face difficult decisions about the most appropriate dressing to use on your patients’ wounds.
When wounds have cavities, undermining, or tunneling, a dressing is required that maintains an appropriate moist environment, 2 that removes easily at dressing changes, and that is able to be used on all types of wounds and exudate levels. 2 Alginates, hydrogels, and gauze have often been clinicians’ choice for these wound situations. The disadvantage of these dressings include: odor (separate from wound odor), “desiccation of the wound bed”, periwound maceration, and/or contraindications for exudate levels. 1,2 These types of dressings require irrigation of the cavity and/or tunnel in order to ensure complete removal at each dressing change.
The QuadraFoam solution to the challenge of cavities, undermining, and tunneling wounds are PolyMem Wic, PolyMem Wic Silver, and PolyMem Wic Silver Rope. As part of the QuadraFoam family of dressings, these primary dressings:
PolyMem Wic, PolyMem Wic Silver and PolyMem Wic Silver Rope do not have the disadvantages that are often associated with primary dressings (including: alginates, hydrogels, or gauze).
These PolyMem primary dressings do not have the semi-permeable film-backing found on other QuadraFoam dressings. PolyMem Wic and PolyMem Wic Silver are for use in cavity and undermined wounds. The most recent addition to our family of products is PolyMem Wic Silver Rope, designed for use in tunneling, undermining, and cavity wounds. PolyMem Wic Silver Rope is reinforced for enhanced strength during the easy application and removal process. PolyMem primary dressings remove in one piece and will not leave debris in the tunnel or cavity wound ( remember: PolyMem Wic and PolyMem Wic Silver should not be placed into tunnels). This means that the standard manual cleansing and irrigation at dressing changes of the cavities, undermined areas, and tunnels that has been a staple of modern wound care are usually no longer necessary while using QuadraFoam dressings. The resulting nurse-time saved at dressing changes is a large cost benefit of using PolyMem QuadraFoam dressings.
The continuous cleansing capability of the QuadraFoam family of dressings means that while the dressing is in place, it is constantly cleansing the wound bed. QuadraFoam dressings also help maintain a moist wound healing environment through the synergistic action of the components. These principles apply to our primary and secondary dressings.
To obtain optimal wound healing results, PolyMem dressings should be used as a cover dressing as well. They are available in a variety of shapes, sizes, thicknesses, with and without silver, and with or without adhesive tape borders.
For more information on the PolyMem QuadraFoam family of dressings, please contact us.
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Visit our booth, #528, at the 41st Annual WOCN Conference in St. Louis, Missouri.
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The new tunneling dressing, PolyMem Wic Silver Rope, was used to successfully close an infected arteriovenous graft in 48 days.
This case study was presented as a poster and awarded first prize at the 8th Annual American Professional Wound Care Association (APWCA) conference in Philadelphia, PA.
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Our featured link this quarter is a Pearls for Practice from OWM Magazine with a focus on tunneling wounds and an expert opinion on their modern wound care management.
Click here to read the entire article.
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1. Baranowski S, Ayello E. Wound Care Essentials Practice Principles. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Second edition. 2008. p 160-169t.
2. Hess C. Skin & Wound Care. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Sixth edition. 2008. p 166-7, 176, 249, 403
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design are trademarks of Ferris. The marks may be registered or pending in the US Patent and Trademark
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