Medline MSC9744EP - DRESSING, OPTIFOAM AG, GENTLE BORDER, 4X4, 10/BX
Optifoam Antimicrobial Adhesive Gentle Border Dressings
Antimicrobial silicone bordered foam dressing!
Silicone border provides gentle adhesion. Highly conformable border can be lifted and reapplied. Moisture vapor transmission rate (MVTR) adjusts to fluid level.
- Ionic silver provides antimicrobial barrier
- Can manage repeated bacteria introduction
- Continuous antimicrobial protection
- Helps create ideal healing environment
- Waterproof
Optifoam Gentle - Giving You the Option to Choose Your Gentle
Dressing changes can be painful for the patient and traumatic to the skin. But not with Optifoam Gentle. It features specially formulated silicone adhesive that keeps the dressings in place, while allowing you to reposition and remove the dressings and minimize harm to the periwound skin.
About Optifoam Gentle Ag+
- Silicone dressing provides gentle adhesion
- Highly conformable
- Moisture vapor transmission rate (MVTR) adjusts to fluid level
- Ionic silver provides an antimicrobial barrier
- Continuous antimicrobial barrier protection
- Helps maintain a moist wound-healing environment
- Waterproof outer layer
- Highly absorbent1
- Non-staining
- Low friction and shear outer layer
Recommended Uses
- All wound depths*
- All wound drainage levels
- As a primary or secondary dressing
Recommended Secondary Dressing
- Gentac tape
- Elastic net
- Medigrip Tubular Bandage
Indications
- Pressure injuries
- Partial- and shallow full-thickness wounds
- Surgical wounds
- Wounds with colonization
- Leg ulcers
- Diabetic foot ulcers
- Donor sites
- Lacerations and abrasions
- Skin tears
- First- and second-degree burns
Change Frequency
- Optifoam Gentle Ag+ may be left in place for up to 7 days
- Dressing change frequency will depend on amount of drainage
Contraindicatios
- Third-degree burns
- Lesions with active vasculitis
- Individuals with a known sensitivity to silver
Our Educational Packaging
A 2-minute course in Advanced Wound Care!
Our innovative wound care packaging features clear, step by-step instructions and pertinent information to help healthcare professionals better understand and more easily deliver wound care at the patients bedside. It eliminates confusion and highlights critical information, ultimately leading to better patient care.
In a study involving 139 nurses at eight different facilities, 88 percent who used a wound care product with an educational guide on it were able to apply the dressing correctly. None of the nurses who received traditional dressing packaging were able to apply the dressing correctly.
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