Medstock Thin Hydrocolloid Dressing is a highly elastic, adhesive dressing embedded with carboxymethyl cellulose hydrophilic granules that help promote a moist wound healing environment. Its elastic, pressure-sensitive adhesive design makes it suitable and easy to apply to most body parts.
Key Functions and Features:
- Embedded hydrophilic carboxymethylcellulose (CMC) granules help to maintain a moist environment that promotes wound healing.
- Waterproof barrier against water and bacteria
- Facilitates autolytic debridement of the wound
- Forms a gel on the wound surface, which assists in maintaining a moist healing environment
- Excellent elasticity which provides comfort and flexibility, even over highly mobile areas such as joints
- May reduce pain by keeping exposed nerve endings moist
Indications for Use:
- Suitable for wounds with nil to low exudate
- Preventative management and treatment of stage I and II pressure injuries
- Abrasions and grazes
- Small, superficial to partial thickness burns
- Shallow ulcers where low exudate exists
- Skin grafts, donor sites, and surgical wounds
- Suitable for necrotic wounds to rehydrate and facilitate debridement
- Scar management
