Smith & Nephew Primapore Adhesive Dressing

Primapore Adhesive Non-Woven Wound Dressing Features

• Highly absorbent and low-adherent pad: 
  
  • Polyester wound contact layer enables the passage of blood or exudate into highly absorbent pad while maintaining a good healing environment and minimal pain on dressing removal
• Ease of use:
  
  • Protector paper, which is slit across the width of the Primapore Dressing, enables quick application without the risk of touching the absorbent pad or adhesive area with fingers or forceps
  • Easily opened packaging facilitates aseptic dressing technique
• Soft and conformable:
  
  • Ensures patient comfort and conformability to all wound sites (even the more difficult areas like shoulders and axillae)
• Safe and secure fixation:
  
  • Low allergy acrylic adhesive is evenly spread onto the non-woven backing surface providing a safe and secure dressing fixation over the wound site
• Patient comfort:
  
  • Thick pad minimizes fluid strike-through and helps protect the wound from trauma

When to use Smith & Nephew Primapore Post-Operative Dressing?

• To dress post-operative wounds, minor cuts, abrasions, lacerations and puncture sites where a water-resistant dressing, which aids in the prevention of bacterial contamination, is required.
• May be used as a secondary dressing over gels, ointments and other primary dressings.