PROFORE^◊ Lite is a multi-layer, reduced-compression bandage system.  Profore Lite is best used on ankle circumferences greater than 18cm or 7¼ inches (padded).

Each PROFORE^◊ Lite Multi-Layer Compression Bandage System pack contains the following:

• One PROFORE^◊ WCL -- Sterile Wound Contact Layer -- helps protect the wound site and help wick away exudate into the absorbent padding.
• One PROFORE^◊ #1 absorbent padding bandage -- helps absorb exudate and helps protect bony prominences.
• One PROFORE^◊ #2 light conformable bandage -- helps absorb exudate and helps prepare and sculpt the leg for the application of the pressure layers.
• One PROFORE^◊ #4 cohesive compression bandage -- helps maintain continuous compression and keeps the system in place for up to a full week.

Graduated Compression
PROFORE^◊ Lite provides higher pressure at the ankle, with decreasing pressure exhibited at the calf to help improve upward blood flow.

Sustained Compression
For up to a full week after application, the PROFORE^◊ Lite system maintains effective levels of compression.

Safety
The PROFORE^◊ Lite system helps ensure that bony prominences are padded for protection. The multi-layer system means that compression is built up gradually, thus minimizing the danger of application error.

Extended Weartime
PROFORE^◊ Lite has sufficient absorptive capacity to manage exudate for up to a full week without the need for reapplication.  During the initial phase of therapy you may experience increased wound drainage as the compression system actively manages the edema.  If strike through happens, remove the PROFORE^◊ Lite system and apply another.

Cost-Effective
Weekly dressing changes reduce nursing time and therefore help reduce costs associated with the management of venous leg ulcers.

Convenient
PROFORE^◊ Lite system contains everything necessary for the application of effective, sustained, graduated compression therapy.  PROFORE^◊ Lite reduces preparation time, simplifies stock control and ensures that the correct components are always available.

PROFORE^◊ Lite Multi-Layer Compression Bandage System is indicated for the management of "mixed" aetiology leg ulcers, where assessment has identified that the patient has some degree of arterial impairment which prevents the use of full compression (ABPI < 0.6).

Contraindications

PROFORE^◊ Lite should not be used on patients with an Ankle Brachial Pressure Index (ABPI) of less than 0.6, or on diabetic patients with advanced small vessel disease.
 
Precautions
Should the patient develop pain or pale, cool or numb extremities distal to the dressing, the bandages should be promptly removed.

Patients with a low ABPI and symptoms of arterial disease should be seen by a vascular specialist before application of compression.

Care should be taken that very thin, bony, legs or legs with a prominent tibial crest should be protected with extra padding.  The pressure under the bandage could bruise and harm unprotected / unpadded skin especially over bony parts of the leg.

Compression bandaging to a leg which already has a partially blocked blood supply could completely stop the flow of blood into the leg and lead to the death of skin and muscle of the leg.  Death of the muscle and skin of the leg could lead to further complications and possibly amputation of the leg.