ALLEVYN^◊ Wound Dressings

What do you really care about?

We know most nurses went into the profession to provide proper care and attention. To make a difference.⁶ However, these days, it is not that simple. There are more patients ⁷, increased cost constraints ^8,9,10, and fewer colleagues to pitch in. ¹¹ Pressures are growing at either end of the spectrum. There are older patients with more complications,¹² and younger patients with higher expectations. ⁷

The result? Healthcare professionals feel they have too little time to provide the kind of care patients deserve.

When it feels like everything is stacked against you, you need simplicity and performance from the foamdressings you use, and the company that provides them.

With ALLEVYN Wound Dressings, we’re shaping what’s possible in wound care.

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+ Releasing time

It’s possible to release valuable time

ALLEVYN Wound Dressings are designed to give back valuable time.^1-3,14,15,16 Time to plan. Time to talk.Time to care. Whether it’s the extended wear time of dressings ^1,216-19, ease of application,repositioning and removal ^{4,14,16,20-27} or enabling shared wound care practices,^1,2,28 ALLEVYN WoundDressings work hard to give you back time. We know you value your time. We can help you to releaseit.

Extended wear time ^1,216-19
Ease of application, repositioning and removal ^{4,14,16, 20-27}
Shared wound care ^1,2,28

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+ Wasting less

It’s possible to produce less waste

Daily wound care practice involves routinely using supplies, creating substantial waste. Focusing onreducing carbon emissions and the respectful use of global resources, we have spearheaded packagingoptimisation for our product ranges.

With their extended wear time^‡,^1,2,16-19 and reduced dressing failures**^14,26,30-32 ALLEVYN WoundDressings are also helping to reduce the burden of waste, with up to 20% less packaging ^{29 *†} , positivelyimpacting the associated costs.

For practices and clinicians, using ALLEVYN Wound Dressings means:

Less dressing failures^** ^14,26,30-32
Less dressings used ^{14,26,30-32†}
Less packaging used ^{29,33 *}
Less waste and more care

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+ Improving lives

It’s possible to improve the lives of your patients

Living with a chronic wound can result in patients living in pain, with mental health issues, and insocial isolation.^34,35 Regular and often unnecessary dressing changes can also be hugely disruptive to lives, such asimpacting job security.³⁶

Over three decades of clinical use, we’ve listened to clinicians and their patients. To support them, we continueto innovate our ALLEVYN Foam Dressings with essential quality-of-life features, such as high conformability,^{4,14,16,22,37-40} and comfort,^{4,14,16,22,30} extended wear time,^1,2,16-19 advanced lock-in and absorptiontechnologies^2,4,22,34,35, and easy application, repositioning and removal.^{4,14,16, 20-27} Together, we can make a realdifference to wound patients’ lives.

As you know, patients are concerned with the aspects of living with a wound that disrupt daily life:²

Comfort and pain upon removal
Odour
Ease of use
Unsightly exudate strikethrough
Leakage
Dressing change frequency
Independence

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ALLEVYN Wound Dressings are absorbent,^40-42 protective^40-43 and gentle.^14,44

ALLEVYN Wound Dressings provide you with the essentials you expect from a foam dressing, and more.

A range of five-layer and three-layer dressings, designed to support a range of wound management and prevention requirements and are available in a wide range of shapes and sizes.

Absorbent ^40-42
The ALLEVYN hydrocellular foam core innovatively balances absorption and retention to create a moist woundhealing environment ^{4,14,32,44,45}, with minimised risk of maceration. ^14,32,44

Protective ^40-43
The ALLEVYN breathable, waterproof ^45-48 top film provides a bacterial barrier,⁴⁹ while the dressing remainsintact.

Gentle ^14,44
The ALLEVYN gentle wound contact adhesives are easy to apply, reposition and remove^{4,14,16, 20-27} and areshown to minimise pain and trauma during dressing changes. ^14,32

ALLEVYN Life Foam Dressings

Provide trusted performance, helping save time and money.^2,28

With unique body-conforming design, wide borders, and flexible layers ALLEVYN LIFE Dressings will allow youto help patients get on with their lives^4,30,34

1. EXUMASK^◊ CHANGE INDICATOR
Minimises the visual impact of absorbed exudate and works as an indicator as to when to change, which helpsminimise unnecessary changes.^2,30

2. EXULOCK^◊ HYPER-ABSORBENT LOCK-AWAY LAYER
Absorbs and locks in exudate^2,4,50 and helps control wound malodour^2,4,51

3. UNIQUE SHAPES AND WIDE BORDERS
The unique quadrilobe heel and sacral shapes fit the contours of the human body securely.^1,4,30

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ALLEVYN Gentle Border Foam Dressings

Trusted to conform and stay in place ^14,21,52-54

With a variety of shape and sizes to suit multiple wound types, ALLEVYN GENTLE BORDER Dressings willallow you to help a wide range of patients’ wounds ^37-39,53

1. MULTI-SITE UNIQUE TRILOBE DRESSING
Conforms closely to difficult to dress body areas, whilst allowing flexibility of the joint ^14,37-39

2. MULTI-WAY STRETCH TECHNOLOGY
Helps with application on awkward areas, and helps maximise patient comfort ^14,37-39

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Caring beyond products

Our commitment to comprehensive wound care goes beyond providing products. It includes initiatives such as the COMPASS Programme helping to achieve better wound care outcomes, the formeo Digital Wound Management Ecosystem for simplified ordering and the COMPASS Clinical Support App that aids wound assessment and decision-making.

We prioritize continuous learning through medical education delivered both on-site and online via platforms like Wound Club Online and programs like T3.