Designed for treatment, optimised to prevent
– same dressing for both treatment and prevention
A common problem, with one proven solution.
Mepilex® Border Sacrum and Mepilex® Border Heel
Designed for treatment, optimised to prevent
The sacral and heel areas are the two most common places where pressure injuries occur and require active monitoring and management 1 2 , so timely and effective treatment, along with prevention where appropriate, are both vital to successful care strategies.
- One dressing for both treatment and prevention.
- For nurses, Mepilex® Border Sacrum and Mepilex® Border Heel offer a simple, effective and gentle way to manage pressure injuries.
- Dressings with Safetac® technology reduce pain and risk of skin damage for patients at dressing removal 3 .
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Designed for treatment
Requiring active monitoring and management, pressure injuries are very time consuming, especially for nurses with large numbers of patients to care for and long to-do lists.
The dressing durability 4 , anatomical shape, and Safetac gentle adhesion technology can help the dressings stay in place for several days, reducing the frequency of dressing changes. Proven, effective and easy to implement dressing options are essential.
90.6% of deep tissue injuries were prevented from deterioration in a US study using Mepilex Border Sacrum and Mepilex Border Heel dressings 5 .
Optimised to prevent
The prevention of pressure injuries is vital to improving patient care and reducing the pressure on hospitals.
The dressings are anatomically shaped, helping them to fit and stay in place around areas prone to pressure injuries, resulting in up to 5 times less pressure injuries when used in addition to standard prevention protocols, according to clinical studies 6 7.
Mepilex Border Sacrum and Mepilex Border Heel are the only dressings engineered with Mölnlycke’s Deep Defense® technology – strength in the patient sliding direction and flexibility in the other. This is proven to protect against extrinsic factors such as pressure, shear and friction 8 that cause pressure ulcers 9 10 .
Pressure injuries are a pain.
Pressure injuries are painful and embarrassing for patients, affecting their independence and quality of life 9 . Pressure injuries are one of the most hospital acquired conditions 11 affecting up to 23% of hospital patients 12 .
Today we face approximately 58 million pressure injuries 13 complications from which result in the deaths of 60,000 people every year in the US alone 14 .
Individuals with pressure injuries have a 4.5x greater risk of death than persons with the same risk factors but without pressure injuries 15 .
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- Leijon, S., Bergh, I., Terstappen, K. Pressure ulcer prevalence, use of preventive measures and mortality risk in an acute care population: a quality Improvement project. Journal of Wound Ostomy and Continence Nursing 2013;49(5):469-474.
- White R. A multinational survey of the assessment of pain when removing dressings. Wounds UK 2008; 4(1):14-22.
- Burton, J.N., Fredrickson, A.G., Capunay, C., Tanner, L., Oberg, C., Santamaria, N., Gefen, A., Call, E. Measuring tensile strength to better establish protective capacity of sacral prophylactic dressings over 7 days of laboratory aging. Advances in Skin and Wound Care 2019;32(7 Supplement):S21-S29.
- Sullivan R. Use of a soft silicone foam to change the trajectory of destruction associated with suspected deep tissue pressure ulcers MEDSURG Nursing, July-August 2015, Vol. 24/No.4.
- Hahnel, E., El Genedy, M., Tomova-Simitchieva, T., Hauß, A., Stroux,A., Lechner,A., Richter,C., AkdeniziD,M., Blume-Peytavi, U., Löber, N. and Kottner, J. The effectiveness of two silicone dressings for sacral and heel pressure ulcer prevention compared with no dressings in high-risk intensive care unit patients: a randomized controlled parallel-group trial, British Journal of Dermatology, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1111/bjd.18621
- Kalowes P, et al. Five-layered soft silicone foam dressing to prevent pressure ulcers in the intensive care unit. Am J Crit Care. 2016;25(6):e108-e119.
- Levy, A., Gefen, A. Assessment of the biomechanical effects of prophylactic sacral dressings on tissue loads: A computational modeling analysis. Ostomy Wound Management 2017;63(10):48-55.
- European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel, National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel and Pan Pacific Pressure Injury Alliance. Prevention and Treatment of Pressure Ulcers/Injuries: Clinical Practice Guideline. The International Guideline Emily Haesler (Ed.). EPUAP/NPIAP/PPPIA: 2019.
- World Union of Wound Healing Societies (WUWHS). Consensus Document: Role of dressings in pressure ulcer prevention. London, UK: Wounds Int; 2016.
- Gardiner JC, et al. Incidence of hospital-acquired pressure ulcers – a population-based cohort study. Int Wound J. 2016;13(5):809-820.
- Demarre L, et al. The cost of prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers: a systematic review. Int J Nurs Stud. 2015 [cited 14 Sep 2017];52(11):1754-1774. URL: doi: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2015.06.006.
- SmartTRAK data 2020.
- Sen, C.K., Gordilo, G.M., Longaker, M.T. Human skin wounds: a major and snowballing threat to public health and the economy. Wound Repair and Regeneration 2009;17(6):763-771.
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