Journal of Woundcare Handbook

The professional's guide to wound product selection

Allevyn Gentle Border Lite

Smith+Nephew

Description

This dressing has an advanced triple-layer construction that combines an absorbent hydrocellular pad sandwiched between a perforated silicone gel adhesive wound contact layer and a highly permeable waterproof outer film

Indications

Chronic and acute full-thickness, partial-thickness or shallow, granulating, low to moderately exuding wounds such as pressure ulcers, leg ulcers, diabetic foot ulcers, infected wounds, malignant wounds, surgical wounds, first- and second-degree burns, donor sites, skin tears, fungating ulcers, epidermolysis bullosa wounds and lesions induced by radiotherapy and chemotherapy

Contraindications

None; for details of precautions, contact supplier

Price

Square: 5×5cm, £0.98; 7.5×7.5cm, £1.51; 10×10cm, £2.36; 15×15cm, £4.16; rectangular: 5.5×12cm, £2.02; 8×15cm, £3.75; 10×20cm, £3.77; oval: 8.6×7.7cm, £1.66; 15.2×13.1cm, £3.88

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