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Historically, PolyMem ® QuadraFoam ® dressings have been thought of primarily as wound care dressings for chronic wounds. In fact, PolyMem dressings are ideal for use on a wide variety of wounds, including acute wounds. We have a large body of evidence confirming PolyMem’s effectiveness in managing both chronic and acute wounds.
For example, a Swiss cyclist collided with another cyclist during a race, resulting in large road rash wounds over multiple parts of his body. This athlete planned to compete in the national championship race six days later, but the pain and size of the road rash were significant. PolyMem dressings were applied shortly after his injury. The reduction in pain, inflammation, edema, and ecchymosis experienced by the athlete through use of PolyMem dressings helped to prevent bruising, helped promote healing, and allowed him pain-free range of motion while he continued training the day after his road rash injury.
Your patients with acute wounds can experience similar benefits through the use of PolyMem dressings. While acute wounds are usually caused by trauma or surgery and chronic wounds are usually formed by internal factors, the phases of healing are the same regardless of the type of wound. By continuously moistening, promoting oxygen flow, and pulling fluids to the wound site, PolyMem dressings help both acute and chronic wounds move through the inflammatory, proliferative, epithelialization, and remodeling stages. 1
So what happened with the cyclist? He got back on the bike the next week and won the Swiss national championship!
Sincerely,
Roger Sessions, D.O., FACEP
Chairman and CEO
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Healthcare professionals who manage acute wounds work to ensure that any number of things do not happen, including infection and/or progression to a chronic wound. An acute wound should follow a normal timeline and should be through the proliferation stage of healing after four weeks with epithelialization continuing to progress.1 If an acute wound does not follow this normal healing timeline then it may be considered a chronic wound.1,2 A chronic wound continues as a “vicious cycle” of prolonged inflammation and “elevated levels of proinflammatory cytokines stimulating protease synthesis.”2
A number of different dressings may be used on acute wounds: transparent films, foams, calcium alginates, hydrofiber, composites, collagen, or antimicrobial dressings.3 There are pros and cons to each of these dressing types, thus guidelines for an ideal dressing have been established to help determine the best one for your patients.3
PolyMem QuadraFoam dressings meet the requirements of an ideal dressing for most wounds. Classified in the US as a foam dressing because the matrix that holds the dressing components together is a foam material. However, they are unlike any other foam categorized dressing and also unlike any other dressing available on the market today. PolyMem QuadraFoam dressings continuously:
● cleanse● help promote autolytic debridement
● fill● help maintain an ideal moisture vapor
● absorbtransfer rate (MVTR) and wound healing ● moistentemperature (36° C), and
● cover● help relieve persistent wound-related ● act as a barrierand procedure-related pain
In acute wound healing, a warm environment and ideal oxygen levels in the tissue are two major goals, with tissue hypoxia being the cause of many acute wound complications.4 The PolyMem QuadraFoam formulation helps to maintain an ideal wound healing temperature of 36° C as well as decrease edema, which is a major cause of reduction in the availability of oxygen at the wound site. By reducing edema, PolyMem helps to reduce pressure on the capillaries, allowing more oxygen to be present at the wound site. Constantly drawing fluids known to contain growth factors and natural healing substances towards the wound, and the absorption of that fluid by the dressings, helps to keep the wound bed moist and aid in the delivery of oxygen to the wound. PolyMem QuadraFoam dressings help create a warm environment and decrease wound site inflammation while supporting the availability of oxygen in order to help promote quick closure of acute wounds.
PolyMem QuadraFoam dressings are available in multiple shapes, sizes, thicknesses, with or without adhesive borders and with or without antimicrobial silver.
Contact us to receive additional information on the PolyMem QuadraFoam formulation or to have a representative visit you.
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“Achieving uniformity in the care rendered to patients with
wounds has been a major desire of clinicians, government
regulators, and third-party payers. 1…Acute wounds are expected to heal with a ‘normal'
wound healing trajectory 3; hence, accelerating healing has
not been the goal in their treatment. Rather, the goal has
been to remove detriments or deterrents to normal healing
and eliminate the complications that may prevent an orderly
and timely reparative process that could convert the
acute wound into a chronic wound.” 5
Read more about the published guidelines for healing of acute wounds.
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1 Sussman C, Bates-Jones B. Wound Care: A Collaborative Practice Manual for Health Professionals. Third Edition. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. 2007. pages 21-42,114,322.
2 Bryant R, Nix D. Acute & Chronic Wounds: Current Management Concepts. Wound Healing Physiology. Third Edition. Mosby, Inc. 2007. Page 56-81.
3 Baranoski S, Ayello E, et al. Wound Care Essentials: Practice Principles. Wound Treatment Options. Second Edition. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. 2008. Pages 136-171.
4 Whitney J. Acute Surgical and Traumatic Wounds. Wound Care Essentials: Practice Principles. Second Edition. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. 2008. Pages193-204.
5 Franz G, et al. Guidelines to aid healing of acute wounds by decreasing impediments of healing. Wound Repair and Reg (2008). 16:723-748.
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