TY  - INPR
T1  - EVALUATION OF ERGONOMIC ASPECTS IN THE DAILY ROUTINE OF A NEW FOAM WITH A WOUND CONTACT LAYER
T5  - Poster presented at EWMA 2013
LA  - English
AU  - Lange-Asschenfeldt, B
AU  - Schätzle, Annette
AU  - Zell, Christiane
AU  - Stern, G
AU  - Wagner, Uli
AU  - Schaupp, R
AU  - Abel, Martin
AB  - Introduction: 
An innovative new CE-marked foam dressing with a wound contact layer* was developed to prove the ergonomic aspects in the daily routine. 

Material & Methods: 
In a multicentre (5), international post marketing surveillance study (PMS) on 28 patients with superficial to deep moderately exuding acute surgical or chronic wounds the foam* was used over one week (three visits). 

Results: 
The foam dressing* showed very good results in the assessment of wound base, wound edge and wound surrounding skin. The coating of the wound base decreased from 75% to 54%. At the wound edges no scaling occurred, hyperkeratosis decreased from 7.1 % to 0%, the redness from 14.3% to 3.6%, inflammations from 3.6% to 0%. No blistering, dryness or swellings occurred in the wound surrounding skin. Haematoma, inflammation, scalings, macerations and edema decreased. The exudation was reduced from middle to weak and no exudation leakage from the foam dressing was observed. Simplicity of application and wearing behaviour were rated with ‘excellent’ to ‘good’. A pain reduction (VAS 0-10) from 49% to 23.6% was observed. 

Conclusions: 
The foam* is very good tolerable, safe, comfortable and easy to apply. It prevents adhesion to the wound and leads to a pain reduction during dressing change.
CY  - Copenhagen, Denmark
Y2  - 1368568800
ER  -