(CS-103) The Roomba of Primary Dressings: A Slough Removal Dressing with Charged Fibers That Provides a Complete and Continuous Cleaning Action. Is it too good to be true?
Thursday, May 16, 2024
7:30 PM – 8:30 PM East Coast USA Time
Introduction: It’s well known that chronic wounds are a major healthcare burden and while healthcare organizations emphasize cost savings, the wound clinician will continue to prioritize optimal, research based care (Dabiri et al, 2016). In efforts to provide quality, cost effective care, the practitioner needs to focus on fundamental wound dressing characteristics to guide their treatment choices. If the clinician is able to use a single product to help decrease the frequency of dressing changes, reduce the risk of infection, promote the debridement of slough, manage wound moisture, and increase efficacy to promote healing in a timely manner, then the goal of cost effective quality care is met. In turn, healthcare organizations must appreciate that this goal is achieved, not only by cost savings, but also by cost avoidance (Al-Gharibi et al, 2018).
Methods: Two patient cases are examined to demonstrate the effectiveness of a charged fiber dressing* that provides comfortability, extends wear time, manages wound moisture, provides a complete and continuous cleaning action that removes slough and reduces the risk of infection, all of which, reduces the healthcare economic burden (Al-Gharibi et al, 2018).
Results: Patients were treated in an outpatient wound care setting with a charged fiber primary dressing*, that supported the debridement of slough, 2-layer compression therapy, and oral antibiotics.
Discussion: One patient achieved 98% wound closure of (2) ten year chronic wounds. The most current wounds were open for 2 years despite using multiple dressings, oral and IV antibiotics, OR debridements, and graft placement. The second patient achieved full wound closure of a large infected acute wound, avoiding hospitalization, surgery, IV antibiotics, and wound chronicity. Both patients reported a significant reduction in drainage and pain within 48 of using the charged fiber dressing*. A combination of dressings and painful procedures could be used to meet the goals of choosing a primary dressing, however; the clinician considered a dressing that is cost effective and appropriate to manage a painful wound with a high bacterial burden that was also painful to sharp debride. Treatment using an antimicrobial, charged fiber dressing* proved to remove a significant amount of slough and further promote wound healing.
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