Johnson & Johnson Biopatch Protective Disk with CHG

Biopatch Protective Disk with CHG Features

• Provides care for vascular access
• Shown in vitro to be effective against MRSA
• Protective disk can absorb up to eight times its weight in fluids
• Capable of absorbing exudate (blood or serum) from the insertion site
• Helps prevent CRBSI by maintaining a 360° zone of inhibition around the insertion site
• CHG is proven effective in the presence of organic matter including blood, sera, and proteins
• Protective disk is composed of sterile polyurethane foam impregnated with the antimicrobial and anti-fungal agent CHG
• CHG is the only antiseptic ingredient recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for skin antisepsis
• Ethicon Biopatch Protective Disk with CHG protects the insertion site and releases CHG, a powerful skin antiseptic over a 7 day period

When to use Biopatch?

Biopatch dressing is ideal to use with:

• Arterial catheters
• IV catheters
• PICC lines
• Central venous lines

What to buy with Biopatch Dressing

• Smith & Nephew Dermal Wound Cleanser
• Cardinal Health Skin Barrier Ointment
• McKesson Adhesive Hydrocellular Silicone Foam Dressing With Border

How to use Ethicon Biopatch Protective Disk?

• Prepare the skin surrounding the percutaneous device according to hospital protocol.
• Remove the Dressing from the sterile package using an aseptic technique.
• Place the Dressing around the catheter, ensuring the BLUE side is facing upward. The smooth WHITE foam side should be next to the patients skin.
• In order to ensure easy removal when used with a film dressing, place the BIOPATCH Dressing around the catheter/pin site in such a way that the catheter rests upon the slit portion of the BIOPATCH Dressing. The edges of the radial slit must approximate one another to assure efficacy.
• Secure the catheter and BIOPATCH Dressing to the skin with BIOCLUSIVE Transparent Dressing. Assure complete contact between skin and the BIOPATCH Dressing.
• Change the patch as necessary. In accordance with facility protocol, dressing changes should occur at least every 7 days. Dressing changes will be needed more frequently with highly exudative wounds.
• To remove the BIOCLUSIVE Dressing, pick up the corner of the dressing and stretch the dressing away from the catheter, holding the catheter in the place. (Dressing will partially lift.) Peel back until resistance is felt. Repeatedly stretch and peel as necessary until the dressing is removed.
• The Dressing will remain attached to the BIOCLUSIVE Dressing so that removal will be simultaneous.

Precaution to take while using Biopatch Dressing

BIOPATCH Dressing should not be placed over infected wounds. It is not intended to be used as a treatment of percutaneous device-related infections.