Cardinal Health Essentials Reinforced Alginate and CMC Dressing

Cardinal Health Essentials Reinforced Alginate and CMC Dressing

Brand/Manufacturer: CARDINAL HEALTH
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Cardinal Health CMC with Reinforced Alginate Dressing aids wound bed preparation by promoting debridement of devitalized tissue. When alginate fibers come into touch with exudate, they produce a gel, which aids in the control of mild bleeding.

Features of Cardinal Health Essentials Reinforced Alginate Dressing

  • Cardinal Health Essentials Reinforced Alginate/CMC Dressing maintains a moist wound healing environment
  • High wet strength
  • Non-adherent
  • Retains exudate
  • Antimicrobial claims: sustained antimicrobial protection, broad-spectrum antimicrobial action

When to use Cardinal Health Alginate Dressings?

  • Filling irregularly shaped wounds like abscesses, cavities and sinuses
  • Partial and full-thickness wounds
  • Moderately to heavily exuding wounds
  • Pressure injuries (stages III and IV)
  • Dehisced wounds or surgical incisions
  • Burn wounds
  • Donor sites
  • Bleeding wounds

 

What to buy with Cardinal Health Alginate Dressing

 

How to use an Cardinal Health Essentials Reinforced Alginate Dressing?

Treating wounds with alginate dressings is an easy process if you follow the correct wound care procedure using following steps:

  1. Clean the wounded area with normal saline solution
  2. Pat dry the around the wound
  3. Place the alginate dressing around the wound
  4. Secure alginate dressing with a secondary dressing to hold it in place
  5. Frequency of changing the dressing should be every one to three days, or when fluid starts to seep out from edge of the dressing.
  6. While changing the alhinate dressing, use saline to dampen it, so damage of surrounding skin can be minimized.

Contraindications of Alginate Dressings:

  • Wounds with hard, dry, necrotic tissue
  • Wounds with minimal exudate
  • Heavy bleeding wounds
  • Third-degree burns

 

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