Why choose Aquacel Ag Advantage Wound Dressing?
Specifically developed to manage biofilm within the dressing, More than silver technology is a unique formulation that contains three components.
They synergistically work together to enhance the antimicrobial efficacy of ionic silver within the dressing resulting in:
- Faster reduction of bacteria
- Breoad spectrum efficacy
- Sustained antimicrobial activity
Why Biofilm is an enemy worth targeting?
Biofilm is present in 78% of hard-to-heal wounds
- Biofilm is everywhere
- In healthcare, biofilm accounts for more than 8o% of all microbial infections! In nature, 99% of bacteria exist in biofilm
- Difficult to eradicate
- Biofilm is difficult to completely remove, even with debridement. It reforms quickly and is a precursor to infection. It is tolerant to antiseptics and antibiotics and able to evade the body’s immune response
- Delays wound healing
- Biofilm creates a sustained but ineffective inflammatory response It also impairs granulation tissue formation and epithelialization
When to use Aquacel Ag Advantage Wound Dressing
- Acute Wounds
- Burns
- Cavity Wounds
- Chronic Wounds
- Deep Wounds
- Dehisced Wounds
- Diabetic Foot
- Granulating/ Epithelializing Wounds
- Infected Wounds
