ConvaTec Launches New Website Designed for Clinicians

     ConvaTec (Skillman, NJ) recently launched a new website, www.Hydrofiber.com, which demonstrates how the company’s proprietary Hydrofiber® Technology is transforming wound care. The technology enables the company’s dressings to gel on contact with fluid, providing clinicians and patients with substantial wound care benefits. Designed for clinicians managing chronic and acute wounds, the website illustrates the unique features and benefits of the technology with extensive video, data, and commentary from research scientists within ConvaTec Wound Therapeutics. This transformational technology powers the performance of advanced wound care products, including Aquacel®, Aquacel Ag®, and Versiva XC® dressings, each developed for different wound management needs.

     Visit www.convatec.com for more information.

UlceRx Venous Ulcer Compression Stocking Treatment Kit Available

     SIGVARIS (Peachtree City, GA) launched the UlceRx Therapy Solution Kit, a medically effective compression stocking kit for the treatment of venous leg ulcers. The kit consists of two underliner stockings and two 30 mmHg–40 mmHg graduated medical compression stockings. One of the pain reducing factors of the new kit is the underliner stocking that is made from 100% cotton to soothe the wearer’s skin. The outer layer fabric also provides a “glide,” which enables the outer stocking to be put on more easily, reducing the pain and discomfort of applying compression to a wound.

     In a recent study, 96.2% of the participating patients achieved complete closure of their wound with the use of the stocking kit (there is only a 70% complete wound closure rate with traditional bandages) and healed ulcers up to 4 cm in diameter twice as fast compared to bandage wrapping. Patients using the stocking kit reported that pain was absent during both the morning and night with the use of the kit, whereas patients using bandages experienced markedly stronger pain when bandages were applied and removed.

     Visit www.sigvaris.com for more information.

Kerraglove® Heals Hand Burns and Injuries

     Ark Therapeutics Group plc (London) recently launched Kerraglove®, a mitten-shaped dressing device to manage exudate in hand injuries, particularly burns.

     The glove is a specially designed device developed and patented for the treatment of hand burns in the hospital or primary care setting. Development of the product involved the testing of semi-breathable polyurethane films to ensure a confined, but optimally moist, environment is maintained within the glove. Such an environment promotes healing of the burn with reduced risk of maceration as a result of the wound becoming too wet. The recommended dressing change time is twice a day initially and daily when exudate levels have subsided.

     Visit www.arktherapeutics.com for more information.