The following Exhibitors Preview highlights some of the companies, products, and services that will be presented during the upcoming Symposium on Advanced Wound Care and Wound Healing Society Meeting. Each exhibit represents a valuable resource for learning and provides an enjoyable way to meet professionals who bring these products and services to you. Be sure to take this opportunity to see what they have in store for you at the San Diego Convention Center.

Anacapa Technologies, Inc. – Booth 723
       Anasept^™ Skin & Wound Antiseptic is a non-cytotoxic, extremely fast-acting, antimicrobial skin and wound cleanser with broad-spectrum, bactericidal (including the antibiotic resistant strains MRSA & VRE, and Acinetobacter baumanii) , fungicidal and virucidal properties. Anasept is available in both spray and pour bottle applicators.
       Anasept Antiseptic Skin & Wound Gel is an extremely safe, clear, long-acting, topical antimicrobial hydrogel with broad-spectrum, bactericidal (including the antibiotic resistant strains MRSA, VRE, and A baumanii), fungicidal and virucidal properties. There is no known resistance to Anasept Antiseptic Skin & Wound Gel.
       Silver-Sept^™ Silver Antimicrobial Skin & Wound Gel is a clear, amorphous hydrogel wound dressing with long-lasting (up to 3 days) antimicrobial barrier properties by inhibiting the growth of bacteria including the antibiotic resistant strains: MRSA & VRE, as well as, fungi such as: Candida albicans an Aspergillus niger.
       Sani-Zone^™ Maximum Strength Odor Eliminator- is a powerful, long lasting air freshener and odor eliminator that stands up to the most obnoxious odors with just a spray or two in an average sized room.

Arobella Medical, LLC – Booth 415
       Arobella Medical, LLC is a medical device company specializing in low-frequency, cavitational ultrasound for wound care and wound management therapies. Located in Minnetonka, Minn, the company is committed to providing wound care professionals with pioneering technology to manage today’s most difficult cases. Arobella Medical, LLC co-founder and CEO Eliaz Babaev has more than 45 years of experience developing, designing, and launching medical devices that use ultrasound.
       The Qoustic Wound Therapy System^™, our newest product, advances debridement by delivering focused ultrasonic energy from the proprietary Qoustic Qurette^™ as it lightly contacts the wound bed, gently separating and removing unwanted tissue while preserving healthy granulation tissue. It is also useful in preparing the wound bed for other therapies, such as grafts and flaps. The Qoustic Wound Therapy System is portable and can be used in many healthcare settings. Arobella Medical, LLC is the leader in advanced ultrasound wound care. For more information, visit www.arobella.com.

ConvaTec (Bristol-Myers Squibb) – Booth 601
       ConvaTec is a global leader in the development and manufacture of advanced wound management, skin care, and ostomy products. The company is a division of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company—a pharmaceutical and related healthcare products company.
       Innovation, caring, and making a difference in people’s lives— that’s the vision of ConvaTec for more than a quarter of a century.

Derma Sciences – Booth 409
       Derma Sciences is a full-line supplier of advanced wound care and skin care products. The company started in the mid-1980s and was a pioneer in the field of topical nutritional healing through the absorption of micronutrients at the cellular level. Our first product, Dermagran^™, was one of the first skin protectants with zinc as a key ingredient. Derma has gone on to develop a full-line of high-quality products and recently launched several new products including Algicell^™ Ag, meeting customers’ needs for a high quality yet cost-effective antimicrobial silver alginate, and Medihoney^™, the first honey-based product available in the US. Medihoney, made with active Leptospermum honey, is the leading brand of honey-based wound and burn dressing throughout the world.

HMP Communications – Booth 609
       HMP Communications provides the medical community with a variety of quality medical journals and programs. Journals include Ostomy Wound Management (indexed in MEDLINE^® and CINAHL^®) and WOUNDS—both are official journals of the AAWC—Skin & Aging, Podiatry Today, Today’s Wound Clinic, Annals of Long-Term Care, and Clinical Geriatrics, in addition to several cardiology-related publications. We also present the Symposium on Advanced Wound Care, along with numerous 1-day seminars and satellite broadcasts of medical symposia. Stop by our booths to meet the staff, purchase Chronic Wound Care: A Clinical Source Book for Healthcare Professionals, 4th Edition; sign up for email newsletters; or subscribe to one of our leading publications.

Hollister, Inc. – Booth 300
       A new alliance has been formed by two global leaders—Hollister Incorporated and Laboratoires URGO. The entity—Hollister Wound Care LLC—now offers an innovative line of wound care products under the Restore brand, including unique dressings with patented Triact technology. The product line offers a full line of acute and chronic wound solutions, including calcium alginate, contact layer and foam dressings with and without silver, hydrogels, wound cleansers, and skin protectants.

Johnson & Johnson Wound Management — Booth 509
       J & J WM is setting a new standard of care with technology-based solutions to advance the treatment of chronic wounds. Feature products include Regranex* (becaplermin) Gel 0.01%, Promogran Prisma* Matrix, Promogran* Matrix, and Silvercel* Antimicrobial Alginate Dressing.
       Visit www.jnj.com for more information.

KCI – Booth 500
       KCI is a global, medical technology company that is a leader in advanced wound care and therapeutic support systems. KCI’s advanced wound care systems incorporate proprietary V.A.C.^® Therapy technology, which has been shown to help promote wound healing at the cellular level during the key phases of the wound healing process. V.A.C. Therapy has been shown to help positively affect rates of wound area reduction while helping to reduce length of stay and the cost of treating patients with serious wounds. These clinical and cost benefits may be further enhanced when Therapy is initiated early. Recently, KCI launched two next generation V.A.C. Systems—the InfoV.A.C.^® Therapy System and the ActiV.A.C.^® Therapy System—designed to make advanced wound care simpler and more efficient than ever. Not only are they designed to help improve V.A.C. Therapy efficiency in the acute and home settings, but they also can help simplify patient transitions through the continuum of care with better information and easier training. For more information, visit www.KCI1.com or SAWC booth #500.

MedEfficiency Inc. – Booth 522
       MedEfficiency is a medical products company that develops, manufactures, and markets efficient medical devices for treating chronic wounds and lower extremity fractures. The main wound products are the MedE-Kast Total Contact Cast System and the TCC-EZ System. Both products are designed to provide optimal offloading for the diabetic foot ulcer patient focusing on time efficiency for the busy wound clinic.
       Visit www.medefficiency.com for more information.

Noble Biomaterials – Booth 1005
       Noble Biomaterials, LLC, the makers of X-Static^®, the silver fiber, is an innovation, development, and manufacturing organization marketing advanced biotechnology materials. As a market leader, Noble provides permanently bonded silver solutions to the medical, consumer, military, and industrial markets.

Organogenesis — Booth 709
       Organogenesis, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and commercializes living, cell-based products. Our Apligraf^® product is the first and only fully differentiated bilayered cell therapy that is FDA-approved for the treatment of venous ulcers and diabetic foot ulcers. It expresses multiple growth factors found in normal skin, provides a biologically active matrix, and has been clinically proven to heal venous ulcers faster than compression therapy alone. In cases of diabetic foot ulcers, Apligraf closes more wounds faster than conventional therapy. In patients treated with Apligraf, both osteomyelitis and amputation were reduced 50%.
       Apligraf is easy to incorporate into practice and has a shelf life of 10 days. It has received positive reimbursement in all settings and has been well tolerated in more than 120,000 patient applications. For additional information, visit www.organogenesis.com or www.apligraf.com.

Smith & Nephew Inc. – Booth 101
       Recently, Smith & Nephew introduced three new dressings and two devices aimed at reducing the system-wide economic impact of wounds. They include Acticoat^™ Post-Op Antimicrobial Barrier, Biostep^™ Collagen Matrix, Allevyn^™ Ag Silver Wound Dressing; along with the V1STA Portable and EZCare Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) devices, which provide all the clinical benefits of NPWT while improving cost effectiveness, patient comfort, and ease of use.
       As a global leader in advanced wound management, Smith & Nephew is the first company to offer NPWT combined with a complete portfolio of infection management, exudate management, and prevention products aimed at simultaneously addressing multiple barriers to healing across the continuum of wound care.
       Physicians, nurses, and wound care specialists in acute care, long-term care, and home care settings now have more options than ever to help their patients heal—all from a convenient and cost-effective single source that is committed to helping people regain their lives.
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