Topical Wound Treatment Products
Chlorhexidine Gluconate Cleansing Kit
November 30, 2011 5:28 am | Aplicare, Inc. | Product Releases | CommentsBlue Ribbon Winner - Infection Control Category This CHG skin cleansing kit from Aplicare provides a solution to help the patient become a partner in infection prevention. The kit contains a 4-oz. bottle of 2 percent or 4 percent CHG along with five ultra-soft towels for patients to cleanse with prior to surgery in order to reduce risk of cross contamination and improve patient outcomes.
LISTED UNDER: Topical Wound Treatment ProductsMEDIHONEY® Gel
March 4, 2011 5:21 am | Derma Sciences | Product Releases | CommentsDerma Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: DSCI) announces receipt of 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the Company's patent-pending MEDIHONEY® Gel Wound and Burn Dressing. This latest MEDIHONEY line extension is dispensed from a tube and is comprised of Active Manuka (Leptospermum) honey blended with natural-based gelling agents.
LISTED UNDER: Topical Wound Treatment ProductsCast Comfort
April 12, 2010 1:36 pm | Shafer Enterprises, LLC | Product Releases | CommentsCast Comfort by Shafer Enterprises is a unique new aerosol spray product that stops unbearable itching, soothes the skin and helps eliminate odor. According to the company, orthopedic surgeons use the product to relieve discomforts that have always troubled casted patients.
LISTED UNDER: Topical Wound Treatment ProductsWound Dressing With Antimicrobial/Barrier Technology
November 13, 2009 5:08 am | Product Releases | CommentsDerma Sciences, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: DSCI), a company specializing in advanced wound care, announces that the Food and Drug Administration has issued its Guidance Document to support the classification of the Company's BIOGUARD™ barrier gauze wound dressings as Class II medical devices.
LISTED UNDER: Topical Wound Treatment ProductsHealing For Mobile, Active Patients
April 20, 2009 5:42 am | Smith & Nephew, Inc. | Product Releases | CommentsSmith & Nephew's Advanced Wound Management Division introduces its new Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) product, the RENASYS™ GO, designed to address the needs of clinicians and their active, mobile patients. The RENASYS™ GO system allows patients to be compliant with NWPT to promote wound healing in any environment.
LISTED UNDER: Topical Wound Treatment ProductsWound Matrix
March 17, 2009 11:19 am | Medline Industries, Inc. | Product Releases | CommentsMedline's MatriStem™ wound matrix is an extracellular matrix that can help the body restart the natural healing process. MatriStem provides a natural, three-dimensional structure that provides an optimal environment to help the body replenish tissue. It is composed from the porcine bladder and offers a unique basement membrane that contains a number of proteins as well as supports and facilitates the growth of epithelial cells.
LISTED UNDER: Topical Wound Treatment ProductsNegative Pressure Wound Therapy System
March 17, 2009 11:19 am | Product Releases | CommentsThe RENASYS™ EZ Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) system is designed to address the needs of wound care professionals and patients and allow clinicians to exercise their own best clinical judgment in NPWT with confidence. Focusing on greater ease-of-use and patient comfort, RENASYS™ EZ allows clinicians to use variable pressure control and enables clinicians to treat surgical, traumatic or chronic wounds according to the individual needs of the patient and the characteristics of the patient's wound.
LISTED UNDER: Topical Wound Treatment Products3D Porous Wound Matrix
March 17, 2009 11:19 am | Integra Life Sciences Corporation | Product Releases | CommentsIntegra™ Flowable Wound Matrix is an advanced 3D porous matrix comprised of granulated cross-linked bovine tendon collagen and glycosaminoglycan. The granulated collagen glycosaminoglycan is hydrated with saline and applied in difficult to access wound sites and tunneled wounds. It provides a scaffold for cellular invasion and capillary growth.
LISTED UNDER: Topical Wound Treatment ProductsAdvanced Wound Care Device
March 17, 2009 11:19 am | Integra Life Sciences Corporation | Product Releases | CommentsIntegra™ Meshed Bilayer Wound Matrix is an advanced wound care device comprised of a porous matrix of cross-linked bovine tendon collagen and glycosaminoglycan and a semi-permeable polysiloxane (silicone) layer. The meshed bilayer matrix allows drainage of wound exudate and provides a flexible adherent covering for the wound surface.
LISTED UNDER: Topical Wound Treatment ProductsWound Therapy System
January 23, 2009 7:56 am | Celleration Inc. | Product Releases | CommentsThe MIST Therapy® System is an innovative device that uses low-frequency ultrasound energy to stimulate the healing of wounds. A recent study shows that the system results in faster healing when combined with conventional wound care and revealed an increased rate of complete wound closure. The patented MIST Technology utilizes low-intensity ultrasonic sound waves to produce an energized mist of sterile saline in a non-contact fashion.
LISTED UNDER: Topical Wound Treatment ProductsA Fresh Perspective on Negative Pressure Wound Therapy
April 14, 2008 11:50 am | Smith & Nephew, Inc. | Product Releases | CommentsNegative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) is a commonly used adjunctive wound care modality that promotes healing through moisture balance and cell stimulation. Today, physicians, nurses and wound care specialists have more options to realize all the clinical benefits of NPWT while improving performance in cost effectiveness, patient comfort and ease of use with the V1STA portable and EZCARE systems from Smith & Nephew, a global leader in advanced wound management therapy.
LISTED UNDER: Topical Wound Treatment ProductsNegative Pressure Wound Therapy Systems
March 12, 2008 9:46 am | Smith & Nephew, Inc. | Product Releases | CommentsSmith & Nephew has introduced a fresh perspective on negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT). Its range of easy-to-use NPWT systems, including EZCARE and V1STA, utilize the Chariker-Jeter wound dressing technique and lower negative pressure levels to give proven efficacy, greater cost-effectiveness and improved patient comfort.
LISTED UNDER: Topical Wound Treatment ProductsWound Treatment Powder
December 17, 2007 4:31 am | Medline Industries, Inc. | Product Releases | CommentsArglaes® Powder can offer bioburden reduction and fluid management in an easy-to-apply powder format, making it ideal for deep, tunneling and highly exudating wounds. It is easily combined with other dressings to create a system for bioburden control and optimal moist healing environment. The powder sends antimicrobial silver ions into the wound regularly over a period of five days, while the alginate base mixes with wound exudate to form a soft, conforming gel.
LISTED UNDER: Topical Wound Treatment ProductsMaking Ends Meet
February 15, 2007 7:35 am | Product Releases | CommentsAmong the most basic and important skills a surgeon has is the ability to close a wound, whether it be caused by accident or during surgery. This has been the case since the dawn of surgery as a profession. Once the work has been done and the patient treated, the closure of the surgical site can be almost as critical to the patient’s outcome as the success of the surgery itself.
LISTED UNDER: Topical Wound Treatment ProductsSoft Tissue Reinforcement Sheet
September 13, 2006 12:34 pm | Mast Biosurgery Usa | Product Releases | CommentsBooth # 2136 • The SurgiWrap MAST Bioresorbable Sheet is designed to reinforce soft tissues in urological, gynecological, gastroenterology, ENT and pericardium anatomies. The sheet is indicated to support soft tissue and minimize tissue attachment to an implantable device in case of direct contact with the viscera in general surgery procedures.
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