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It takes a great deal of innovation to be this simple.
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We know most nurses went into the profession to provide proper care and attention. To make a difference.6 However, these days, it is not that simple. There are more patients 7, increased cost constraints 8,9,10, and fewer colleagues to pitch in. 11 Pressures are growing at either end of the spectrum. There are older patients with more complications,12 and younger patients with higher expectations. 7

The result? Healthcare professionals feel they have too little time to provide the kind of care patients deserve.

When it feels like everything is stacked against you, you need simplicity and performance from the foam dressings you use, and the company that provides them.

With ALLEVYN Wound Dressings, we’re shaping what’s possible in wound care.

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ALLEVYN Wound Dressings can provide you with the essentials you expect from a foam dressing, and more

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+ Releasing time

It’s possible to release valuable time

ALLEVYN Wound Dressings are designed to give back valuable time.1-3,14,15,16 Time to plan. Time to talk. Time to care. Whether it’s the extended wear time of dressings 1,216-19, ease of application, repositioning and removal 4,14,16,20-27 or enabling shared wound care practices,1,2,28 ALLEVYN Wound Dressings work hard to give you back time. We know you value your time. We can help you to release it.

  • Extended wear time 1,216-19
  • Ease of application, repositioning and removal 4,14,16, 20-27
  • Shared wound care 1,2,28

Download related publication summaries on:
ALLEVYN Life Foam Dressings  or ALLEVYN GENTLE BORDER Foam Dressings

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+ Wasting less

It’s possible to produce less waste

Daily wound care practice involves routinely using supplies, creating substantial waste. Focusing on reducing carbon emissions and the respectful use of global resources, we have spearheaded packaging optimisation for our product ranges.

With their extended wear time‡,1,2,16-19 and reduced dressing failures**14,26,30-32 ALLEVYN Wound Dressings are also helping to reduce the burden of waste, with up to 20% less packaging 29 *† , positively impacting the associated costs.

For practices and clinicians, using ALLEVYN Wound Dressings means:

  1. Less dressing failures** 14,26,30-32
  2. Less dressings used 14,26,30-32†
  3. Less packaging used 29,33 *
  4. Less waste and more care


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+ Improving lives

It’s possible to improve the lives of your patients

Living with a non-healing wound can result in patients living in pain, with mental health issues, and in social isolation.34,35 Regular and often unnecessary dressing changes can also be hugely disruptive to lives, such as impacting job security.36

Over three decades of clinical use, we’ve listened to clinicians and their patients. To support them, we continue to innovate our ALLEVYN Wound Dressings with essential quality-of-life features, such as high conformability,4,14,16,22,37-40 and comfort,4,14,16,22,30 extended wear time,1,2,16-19 advanced lock-in and absorption technologies2,4,22,34,35, and easy application, repositioning and removal.4,14,16, 20-27 Together, we can make a real difference to wound patients’ lives.

As you know, patients are concerned with the aspects of living with a wound that disrupt daily life:2

  • Comfort and pain upon removal
  • Odour
  • Ease of use
  • Unsightly exudate strikethrough
  • Leakage
  • Dressing change frequency
  • Independence

Download here a recent case study on: ALLEVYN GENTLE BORDER Foam Dressings on a Complex Surgical Wound.

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ALLEVYN LIFE Foam Dressings

Provide trusted performance, helping save time and money.2,28

With unique body-conforming design, wide borders, and flexible layers ALLEVYN LIFE Foam Dressings will allow you to help patients get on with their lives4,30,34

1. EXUMASK◊ CHANGE INDICATOR
Minimises the visual impact of absorbed exudate and works as an indicator as to when to change, which helps minimise unnecessary changes.2,30

2. EXULOCK◊ HYPER-ABSORBENT LOCK-AWAY LAYER
Absorbs and locks in exudate preventing leakage2,4,50 and helps control wound malodour2,4,51

3. UNIQUE SHAPES AND WIDE BORDERS
The unique quadrilobe heel and sacral shapes fit the contours of the human body securely.1,4,30

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ALLEVYN GENTLE BORDER Foam Dressings

Trusted to conform and stay in place 14,21,52-54

With a variety of shape and sizes to suit multiple wound types, ALLEVYN GENTLE BORDER Foam Dressings will allow you to help a wide range of patients’ wounds 37-39,53

1. MULTI-SITE UNIQUE TRILOBE DRESSING
Conforms closely to difficult to dress body areas, whilst allowing flexibility of the joint 14,37-39

2. MULTI-WAY STRETCH TECHNOLOGY
Helps with application on awkward areas, and helps maximise patient comfort 14,37-39

3.CUTTABLE***

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Caring beyond products

Our commitment to comprehensive wound care goes beyond providing products. It includes initiatives such as the COMPASS Programme helping to achieve better wound care outcomes, the formeo Digital Wound Management Ecosystem for simplified ordering and the COMPASS Clinical Support App that aids wound assessment and decision-making.

We prioritize continuous learning through medical education delivered both on-site and online via platforms like Wound Club Online and programs like T3.

Read more in our Value booklet (pdf)

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Citations

* Cases, cartons and pouches compared to 2021 packaging dimensions
† Compared with previous dressings
** Instances of unanticipated dressing failures arise from poor performance, such as dressing leakage due to lifting borders, weak adherence to the skin and excessive visible dressing strikethrough
*** Cutting will compromise the bacterial barrier properties of the dressing
‡ As demonstrated in laboratory testing

 

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  2. Tiscar-González V, Menor-Rodríguez MJ, Rabadán-Sainz C, et al. Clinical and Economic Impact of Wound Care Using a Polyurethane Foam Multilayer Dressing. Adv Skin Wound Care. 2021;34(1):23-30.
  3. Forni C, Searle R. A multilayer polyurethane foam dressing for pressure ulcer prevention in older hip fracture patients: an economic evaluation. J Wound Care. 2020;29(2):120-127
  4. Rossington A, Drysdale K, Winter R. Clinical performance and positive impact on patient wellbeing of ALLEVYN Life. Wounds UK. 2013;9(4):91 – 95
  5. Smith+Nephew 14 June 2012.Odour reducing properties of ALLEVYN Life. Internal Report. DS/12/127/DOF.
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