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ALLEVYN™

Wound Dressings

Clinical Evidence

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ALLEVYN^◊ Adhesive and ALLEVYN^◊ Non-Adhesive – Delivering excellent fluid management
Consequences of poor fluid management
ALLEVYN^◊ Non-Adhesive has the best fluid handling capacity within non-adhesive foam dressings³
ALLEVYN^◊ Non-Adhesive – Providing protection against leakage

ALLEVYN^◊ Adhesive and ALLEVYN^◊ Non-Adhesive – Delivering excellent fluid management

Optimal fluid management is an essential function of dressings for use on exuding wounds. The ability to manage exudate effectively results in the optimal wound environment. Failure to manage wound exudate can result in fluid pooling at the skin surface, which has the potential to cause maceration, or leakage, which may allow the penetration of bacteria into the wound.

Consequences of poor fluid management

Excessive moisture - leads to maceration
Lack of moisture - drying out of wound

Example of maceration Example of dry wound

How ALLEVYN^◊ helps to facilitate the natural healing process

ALLEVYN^◊ reduces the risk of maceration
ALLEVYN^◊ maintains an optimal moist wound environment

ALLEVYN^◊ Non-Adhesive has the best fluid handling capacity within non-adhesive foam dressings³

Fluid handling capacities of a range of non-adhesive dressings over a 24-hour period

Fluid Handling Capacity

(g/100cm² of absorbent pad)
Allevyn Wound Dressings Clinical Evidence Fluid Handling Capacities

Polymem™ Non-Adhesive Mepilex™ 3M™ Foam Non-Adhesive Biatain™ Foam Non-Adhesive New ALLEVYN^◊ Non-Adhesive

Water Vapor Transmission

Fluid Absorbed

ALLEVYN^◊ Non-Adhesive – Providing protection against leakage

In managing patients’ wounds, leakage of exudate can be a combination of poor fluid handling and/or dressing design. Protection against leakage becomes particularly important depending on different wound types. For example protection against leakage on a leg ulcer may become more important if the patient is mobile and the leg is vertical. As well as the potential of delaying wound healing or increasing the risk of bacterial penetration, leakage of exudate can also have a considerable impact on a patient's quality of life.

ALLEVYN^◊ Non-Adhesive provides better protection against leakage than the competition (in-vitro)⁴

Dressing Provides protection against leakage (in-vitro)

New ALLEVYN^◊ Non-Adhesive

Mepilex^TM Χ

3M^TM Foam Χ

Biatain^TM Non-Adhesive Χ

With 17 years of clinical evidence in the form of published clinical studies, case studies and internal clinical evaluations, ALLEVYN^◊ has been proven to support the natural healing process in wounds across a wide range of indications, wound shapes, sizes and locations.

Please search below for abstracts of a selection of key clinical papers, which you can find per indication. For full details of these or other clinical papers and case studies, please contact your local Smith & Nephew office.

Indication Variant Author Title Abstract

Pressure Ulcer ALLEVYN^◊ Plus Adhesive Sacrum Hampton S, Kerr A, King L Reviewing the use of a sacral dressing Case Study

Pressure Ulcer ALLEVYN^◊ Adhesive Seeley J, Jensen JL, Hutcherson J A randomized clinical study comparing a hydrocellular dressing to a hydrocolloid dressing in the management of pressure ulcers Clinical Study

Pressure Ulcer ALLEVYN^◊ Heel G Kammerlander Use of ALLEVYN^◊ Heel in the management of heel ulcers Clinical Study

Pressure Ulcer ALLEVYN^◊ Sacrum Dowcett C ALLEVYN^◊ Sacrum in the management of a Grade III sacral pressure sore Case Study

Pressure Ulcer ALLEVYN^◊ Adhesive Carragher S ALLEVYN^◊ Adhesive and INTRASITE^◊ Gel in the management IV Stage Pressure Sore Case Study

Pressure Ulcer ALLEVYN^◊ Non-Adhesive Joan-Enric Torra I Bou, Justo Ruedo Lopez, Carme Ramon I Canton An experimental study to calculate the pressure reduction effect of ALLEVYN^◊ Non-Adhesive dressing in healthy volunteers on locations susceptible to pressure ulcers Experimental Study

Diabetic Foot Ulcer ALLEVYN^◊ Non-Adhesive Baker NR, Creevy J A randomized comparative pilot study to evaluate ALLEVYN^◊ Non-Adhesive Hydrocellular dressings and Sorbsan Calcium-Alginate dressings in the treatment of diabetic foot ulcers Case Study

Venous Leg Ulcer ALLEVYN^◊ Non-Adhesive Rajput HI, Cullingworth L, Dunne T Comparative evaluation of a hydrocellular foam wound dressing ALLEVYN^◊ Non-Adhesive versus a hydrocolloid dressing in chronic lower limb venous ulceration Randomized Controlled Trial

Fungating/ Malignant Wounds ALLEVYN^◊ Non-Adhesive Crittenden M Fungating wounds: "A shared experience of a nursing challenge". An account of the palliative management of a patient with extensive fungating multi-nodular lesions arising from a malignant melanoma Poster Presentation

Surgical/Post-operative Wounds ALLEVYN^◊ Adhesive Martini L, Reali UM, Borgognoni L, Andriessen A Comparison of two dressings in the management of partial-thickness donor sites Comparative Study

Burns ALLEVYN^◊ & INTRASITE^◊ Gel De Vincentis, G., MD, Caracciolo, G., MD, PHD, Anselmi, A. RN. The use of ALLEVYN^◊ Non-Adhesive and INTRASITE^◊ Gel in the treatment of facial burns in children due to fireworks Case Study

Donor Sites ALLEVYN^◊ Non-Adhesive Giovanni Di Benedetto, MD, Marina Pierangeli, MD Alessandro Saclise, MD Anneke Andriessen, R.N, C.N.S, Ph.D., Sara Rowan, R.N. C.N.S. and Aldo Bertani, MD An improved Tie-Over dressing technique for skin graft fixation Case Study

1. 4022/3/Data on file report/ALLEVYN^◊
2. 4104/4/Data on file report/ALLEVYN^◊
3. 4104/4/Data on file report/ALLEVYN^◊
4. 5576/3/Data on file report/ALLEVYN^◊

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Example of maceration	Example of dry wound

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ALLEVYN™

ALLEVYN◊ Adhesive and ALLEVYN◊ Non-Adhesive – Delivering excellent fluid management

Consequences of poor fluid management

ALLEVYN◊ Non-Adhesive has the best fluid handling capacity within non-adhesive foam dressings3

ALLEVYN◊ Non-Adhesive – Providing protection against leakage

ALLEVYN◊ Non-Adhesive provides better protection against leakage than the competition (in-vitro)4

ALLEVYN^◊ Adhesive and ALLEVYN^◊ Non-Adhesive – Delivering excellent fluid management

ALLEVYN^◊ Non-Adhesive has the best fluid handling capacity within non-adhesive foam dressings³

ALLEVYN^◊ Non-Adhesive – Providing protection against leakage

ALLEVYN^◊ Non-Adhesive provides better protection against leakage than the competition (in-vitro)⁴