5-Layer Hydrophilic Foam Dressing with Adhesive Silicone Border
ALLEVYN Life is a multilayer hydrocellular foam dressing with silicone adhesive. Both its innovative combination of layers and its new multilobular design make ALLEVYN Life a unique and different dressing, especially indicated for the Prevention of Pressure Injuries. It is also indicated in the treatment of chronic and acute wounds with fragile perilesional skin, such as: lower limb ulcers, diabetic foot ulcers, neoplastic wounds, surgical wounds, first and second degree burns, donor sites.
Characteristics:
- Unique 4-lobe design allows perfect adaptation to the area to be applied.
- Exudate stain masking layer. Helps to reduce the sensation of discomfort in patients suffering from a wound.
- Highly absorbent central layer that retains exudate and prevents leakage.
- Cushioned structure that protects injuries and provides pressure relief.
- Silicone adhesive that protects the perilesional area in patients with fragile and delicate skin and allows peeling and re-gluing.
- Indicator of dressing change due to saturation. Allevyn Life indicates in a simple and clear way when to remove it.
- It maintains its cushioning effect under pressure and releases pressure, which allows its use to prevent and heal pressure injuries and with compressive bandaging.
- Its outer layer is impermeable to water and bacteria, but lets out exudate in the form of steam. It is not occlusive.
- Sterile in Ethylene Oxide.