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Bluestar Silicones Unveils Skin Adhesive Silicone Elastomers for Wound Care Applications
Bluestar Silicones (Anaheim, Calif), one of the world’s leading fully integrated global silicones manufacturers, recently launched a new line of skin adhesive elastomer gels. The new Silbione® Silicone Gels provide gentle, non-irritating adhesion for a range of wound and skin care applications. Wound care is a growing market for silicones because of the material’s property profile and biocompatibility. The gel skin adhesives are two-part, platinum-catalyzed silicone gel elastomers that are manufactured in a clean environment to ensure healthcare grade levels of purity and quality.
Celox™ Stops Bleeding and Saves Lives on The Battlefield
Celox™ granules are high surface area flakes. When the flakes come in contact with blood, the product forms a robust gel like clot in 30 seconds. It works independently of the body’s normal clotting processes. The product’s clotting ability has been proven to work in the cold (hypothermia) or in the presence of common anti-coagulants such as warfarin. Since it does not generate heat, Celox will not burn the casualty or care giver. The product is made with chitosan, which is broken down by lysozyme, a human enzyme that leaves glucosamine, a sugar that is normally found in the body.
FDA Issues Guidance for Derma Sciences’ Exclusive Wound Dressing With pDADMAC
Derma Sciences, Inc. (Princeton, NJ), a specialty medical device/pharmaceutical company specializing in advanced wound care, recently announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued its Guidance Document to support the classification of the company's BIOGUARD™ barrier gauze wound dressings as Class II medical devices. This novel wound dressing received its initial market clearance on February 25, 2009, via the FDA's de novo review process, a special clearance program for medical devices that are found to be "not substantially equivalent" to any predicate device.
Gauze-based NPWT Achieves Same Treatment Goals as Foam-based NPWT
The Advanced Wound Management Division of Smith & Nephew Inc, a subsidiary of Smith & Nephew Plc (St. Petersburg, FL) highlighted the results of a multi-center study that demonstrated that gauze-based negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) achieves many of the common treatment goals defined for foam-based NPWT systems. These goals include a reduction in wound dimension, exudate, and improvement in granulation tissue. The results of this study were presented in a poster session at the 24th Annual Clinical Symposium on Advances in Skin and Wound Care in San Antonio, Texas.
Systagenix Wound Management Introduces New Silvercel® Non-Adherent Dressing
Systagenix Wound Management (Quincy, MA) recently unveiled Silvercel® Non-Adherent dressing, a new antimicrobial silver dressing with a nonadherent layer that controls infection and minimizes trauma with each dressing change. With some dressing changes, removal can cause trauma to the wound bed causing severe discomfort to the patient. Additional problems reported by clinicians are dressing fibers or residue left in the wound following dressing change that can lead to damaged newly formed tissue and increased pain for the patient.
Sigvaris Sponsors Compression Therapy and Venous Disease Blog
Sigvaris (Peachtree City, Ga) will sponsor a leg circulation, compression therapy, and venous disease management blog (www.veinhealthforum.org) as a continuing education resource for medical professionals. Medical topics and content related to compression therapy and venous disease are added regularly to the blog site. Medical professionals and industry experts including Dr. Samuel Martin, FACS; Dr. Mark D. Forrestal, FACph; and Dr. Michael F.
I-Flow Announces Availability of ON-Q® SilverDressings™
I-Flow Corporation, through its wholly owned subsidiary AcryMed Inc, announced the availability of its family of four conveniently sized ON-Q® SilverDressings™. These thin film dressings contain ionic silver that is 99.99% effective in killing or inhibiting the growth of a wide range of microorganisms including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus for up to 7 days. This added layer of antimicrobial protection might reduce the risk of infection, which may help facilities avoid incremental treatment costs.
Smith & Nephew Launches Antimicrobial Dressings
Smith & Nephew’s Advanced Wound Management division (Hull, United Kingdom), is launching two extensions to the Allevyn Ag™ range of dressings—Allevyn Ag™ Gentle Border and Allevyn Ag™ Gentle. These dressings will combine the antimicrobial protection of silver with the gentleness of silicone and soft gel adhesives that have been specifically designed to minimize patient pain and trauma to the wound at dressing removal.
KCI Highlights ABThera™ Open Abdomen NPT System at Symposium in addition to Introducing New Open Abdomen Clinical Guidelines
Kinetic Concepts Inc ([KCI] San Antonio, Tex) will highlight the latest addition to the KCI Negative Pressure Technology Platform (NPTP), the ABThera™ Open Abdomen Negative Pressure Therapy System during a symposium sponsored by the company on October 2, 2009 at the 68th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (Pittsburgh, Pa). The NPT system is an easy-to-use solution designed to assist surgeons in the management and treatment of the open abdomen while helping achieve primary fascial closure. The NPT system can be used adjunctively with other KCI products.
KCI Sponsors Georgetown Diabetic Limb Salvage Conference Symposium
Kinetic Concepts Inc ([KCI] San Antonio, Tex) will sponsor a CME-accredited panel discussion entitled, “The Role of NPWT in the Team Approach to Limb Salvage: Case Studies,” at the 3rd Annual Georgetown Diabetic Limb Salvage conference (Washington, D.C.) September 24-26, 2009. Experts from among the largest and most renowned limb preservation centers across the US will host a panel discussion on the interaction of specialists and surgical techniques used for limb salvage, including the utilization of KCI’s V.A.C.® Therapy. The panel discussion will be co-moderated by Christopher E.
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