Journal of Woundcare Handbook

The professional's guide to wound product selection

SNAP Advanced Dressing Kit (Foam)

SNAP Advanced Dressing Kit (Foam)

3M + KCI

Description

Proprietary hydrocolloid dressing that helps maintain a seal. Comes with tubing, measuring grid (cm) and SNAP Blue Foam Dressing or gauze. The tubing, which connects the dressing with the cartridge, can be cut to size

Indications

Removal of small amounts of exudate from chronic, acute, traumatic, subacute and dehisced wounds, partial-thickness burns, ulcers (such as diabetic, venous or pressure), surgically closed incisions, flaps and grafts

Contraindications

Do not place over: inadequately drained wounds; necrotic tissue such as eschar or adherent slough; exposed blood vessels, anastomotic sites, organs, tendons or nerves; malignant wounds; fistulas; untreated osteomyelitis; bleeding wounds

Price

Small foam 10×10cm, £30.24; medium foam 15×15cm, £34.71; large 20×20cm foam, £38.31; small gauze, £26.76, not on Drug Tariff; large gauze, £28.67, not on Drug Tariff

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