Transparent film dressings designed to secure the catheter in challenging I.V. applications. Many with notches and borders reinforced with a soft cloth fabric, designed to reduce edge lift and to seal around the insertion site.

• The CDC/HICPC Guidelines for the Prevention of Intravascular Catheter-
• Related Infections base dressing change recommendations on studies with Tegaderm Film.
• Notched designs provide a better seal around the catheter.
• Sterile tape strips are provided on many dressings.
• Breathable film allows moisture vapor and oxygen exchange.
• Transparency allows monitoring of I.V. sites without the need to remove the dressing.
• Picture-frame style allows one-handed application and less waste. Unique, nonadhesive handles allow for hassle-free application (1655 & 1650 designs).
• Waterproof dressing provides a breathable bacterial and viral barrier to outside contaminants and allows the patient to shower.
• For pediatric I.V.s, the 1610 dressing, with colorful bears, provides an ideal solution.
• Tegaderm Plus (9524 & 9526 designs) dressings contain iodophor impregnated adhesive.

Suggested Applications

• Peripheral and midline venous catheters
• Central venous catheters (including subclavian, jugular, femoral and PICCs)
• Implanted infusion devices (ports)
• Dialysis catheters
• Pulmonary artery catheters
• Arterial catheters
• Epidural catheters
• Insulin pump catheters
• Scalp vein needles
• Feeding tubes

This composite dressing is a sterile, waterproof bacterial barrier which consists of a non-adherent absorbent pad bonded to a larger thin film transparent dressing.

• Convenient, all-in-one sterile dressing reduces application time.
• Waterproof bacterial barrier which allows patients to shower and protects the site from outside contaminants.
• Breathable film allows skin to function normally with good exchange of moisture vapor and oxygen.
• Provides moist wound environment to enhance healing and lessen pain.
• Unique, non-adherent pad won’t stick to the wound, allowing normal wound healing processes to occur with less pain and trauma.
• Comformable dressing is easier to apply, and stretches with the skin to promote longer wear time.

Primary Dressing Applications

• Post-surgical dressing to protect clean, closed wounds
• Fragile, at-risk skin
• Light-to-moderately draining wounds
• Superficial and partial-thickness wounds
• Acute wounds such as cuts, burns, and abrasions
• To secure or cover devices
• Chronic wounds
• I.V. catheter sites (peripheral and central lines)

Secondary Dressing Applications

• Over hydrogels, alginates, and gauze