Designed for treatment, optimised to prevent
– same dressing for both treatment and prevention
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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
- 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
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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
90.6% of deep tissue injuries were prevented from deterioration in a US study using Mepilex Border Sacrum and Mepilex Border Heel dressings
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
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
Pressure injuries are a pain.
Pressure injuries are painful and embarrassing for patients, affecting their independence and quality of life
Today we face approximately 58 million pressure injuries
Individuals with pressure injuries have a 4.5x greater risk of death than persons with the same risk factors but without pressure injuries
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Mölnlycke Advantage
Pressure injuries – still a global crisis!
Pressure injuries continue to present substantial clinical challenges to health care professionals and economic burden on health care providers. They also have a huge impact on the quality of life of patients and their care givers. Mölnlycke invites you to join this short webinar with key thought leaders, Dot Weir and Dr. Lee Ruotsi, offering insights into how pressure injuries continue to affect clinicians and patients every day. Thursday 17 November 2022, 6:00PM EST Join the webinar
PI prevention, trends and lessons learnt from the COVID-19 pandemic
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, an increasing number of patients are being admitted to ICU/CCU and cared for in a prone position for extended periods to aid mechanical ventilation. How can clinicians manage the increased risk of patients developing pressure ulcers as a result of prone positioning? Available now on demand. Watch Now
Track your progress: Tools and Methods for Pressure Ulcer Prevention
How do you generate the data you need to track your progress with pressure ulcer prevention? Who can help you, and what kind of data do you need? Joyce Black and William Padula help you figure out what questions you should be asking and which tools and methods can give you the most valuable answers. Watch on-demand version
How to protect the sacrum
Every patient and every case is unique. So based on risk assessment, how do you decide on the right algorithm for an optimal treatment plan tailored to suit each patient? Professor Amit Gefen and Dr. Nick Santamaria conduct this insightful discussion on the whole range of risk assessment, measurement, and the prevention and care of sacral pressure ulcers in critically ill patients. Watch on-demand version
Prophylactic use of dressings
Topics: Clinical consensus on using dressings for pressure ulcer prevention What the ideal prevention dressing should look like Clinical and health-economic evidence proving the efficacy of dressings for pressure ulcer prevention
Pressure ulcer prevention strategies
Topics: Need for a prevention solution Specific prevention strategies that could be included in a solution
How can you prevent pressure injuries in the OR, and why is prevention important?
Learn from experts’ real-life experience and evidence-based practice in pressure injury prevention. Join Diane Kimsey as she shares her process improvement plans for decreasing pressure injuries in acute and ambulatory OR settings. Thursday, 16 April 1 PM EST/7 PM CET Join webinar
Leading the way in prevention
Despite the existence of prevention protocols, pressure ulcers are still one of the most common hospital-acquired conditions
What are pressure ulcers?
Topics: How pressure ulcers are defined and classified Risk factors and the mechanisms that cause pressure ulcers Superficial vs. deep tissue injury
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