BSN Medical Cutimed Calcium Alginate Dressing 4 X 8 Inch Rectangle Calcium Sodium Alginate (80% calcium and 20% Sodium)/Natural Seaweed Sterile - 7263402

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• Maintains a moist environment
• Fast gelling
• Highly absorbent
• Retains the exudate in a gel
• Excellent wet integrity
• Moderate to heavily exuding wounds; shallow and deep wounds
• Chronic wounds such as venous ulcer, pressure ulcer, arterial ulcer, diabetic ulcer
• Acute wounds such as skin donor sites, abrasions and lacerations, superficial and partial thickness burns
• Easily cut to size customisable application
• Highly flexible fibres conform to every wound base
• Excellent wet integrity easily removed intact
• The exchange of calcium ions within the dressing with sodium ions, which are present in the exudate, transforms the alginate into a moist gel
• Facilitates moist wound healing by maintaining a moist environment
• Has haemostatic properties due to calcium ion release from the alginate dressing in contact with body fluids
• Reduces risk of maceration only one layer of exudate is maintained at the wound surface but excess exudate is absorbed
• Helps to clean the wound bacteria are trapped in the gel formed by the exudate absorbed and are then removed during dressing change