Bring the focus back to wound healing

Get wound healing back on track and patients back to their lives

Caring for wounds is both art and science. You provide the dedication and skill to your patients – 3M provides unparalleled solutions developed by empathetic experts who apply science to your healthcare challenges. But in this time of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare treatments may have been delayed, resulting in the loss of precious healing time. 3M products can help promote wound healing and bring the focus back to wound healing with wound management tools such as negative pressure wound therapy and advanced wound care options that may help reduce the risk of infections, reduce the risk of complications and get patients back to their lives.

Don’t wait. The time is now to help wound care patients recover, safely and confidently.

Now more than ever, patients need reassurance that they don’t have to manage their wounds alone while recovering and healing.
Clinicians also need a trusted partner that goes beyond selling products to providing trusted solutions and best-in-class service.
3M gives you the protocols, proven portfolios and expert support that enable you to focus on delivering clinical and economic outcomes.
When you’re there for your patients, 3M is here for you, helping to bring certainty in uncertain times.
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Manage wounds with certainty when it matters most

COVID-19 has dramatically changed the healthcare landscape for you and your wound care patients. Now, as your patients seek advanced modalities to help them get back to their lives, 3M is here to help.
As the leader in Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT), 3M delivers innovative wound care technologies and evidence-based outcomes to suit you and your patient’s needs.
Promote wound healing with a powerful portfolio of Advanced Wound Dressings

You'll need powerful allies to help keep your patient's healing on track during COVID-19. That’s why we offer a comprehensive portfolio of advanced wound care solutions.
From a Collagen/ORC matrix dressing that can help improve healing rates to antimicrobial dressings¹⁷ that can provide an effective barrier to bacterial contamination, and a silicone foam dressing that can help you effectively manage exuding wounds. 3M gives you the solutions and support your wound care patients need to encourage healing and help them get back to their lives.
Get patients back on their feet with 3M’s Venous Leg Ulcer (VLU) Solutions

Venous leg ulcers (VLUs) are the most common type of lower extremity wound, afflicting approximately 1% of the western population during their lifetime.¹⁹ With the onset of COVID-19, outpatient clinic visits dropped dramatically and some VLU patients were no longer receiving their weekly assessments and treatment. Delays and interruptions in care can cause wound healing to stall and deteriorate. You can help patients stay on track by focusing on best practices for skin and wound management and incorporating compression therapy as the gold standard of VLU care.

Today, more than ever, your patients deserve innovative 3M skin protectants, wound care dressings and compression systems to help bring the focus back to wound healing and get them back on their feet.

Reset the wound environment and support wound healing
V.A.C.® Therapy has been shown to be a successful way to manage wounds for the past 25 years. Extensive and early use of negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) can be beneficial in helping prevent wound healing complications and helping to support healing.¹

V.A.C.® Therapy has been associated with:

Fewer hospitalizations^2,4

Fewer complications^3,4

Fewer amputations^5,6

Fewer dressing changes for patients with groin infections^7,8

Shorter hospitalization for patients with DFU’s^5,6

Reduced treatment times^9-11

But wait, did you know that V.A.C. VERAFLO™ Therapy has been shown to provide better clinical outcomes overall than V.A.C.® Therapy alone when added to standard of care?²⁰

V.A.C. VERAFLO™ Therapy, when used in conjunction with good clinical practice (e.g., debridement, appropriate antibiotics), has been shown to be more beneficial than V.A.C.^® Therapy with respect to:

Number of surgical debridement’s during therapy²⁰

Time to readiness for final wound closure²⁰

Duration of therapy²⁰

Number of wounds closed²⁰

Number of patients with reduced bacterial bioburden²⁰
Act with certainty and speed

Studies have shown that faster healing rates may result from earlier use of Advanced Wound Dressing products, which may reduce rates of infection, inflammation and wound chronicity.^1,2 Don’t wait. Implement 3M Solutions to help manage bacterial bioburden and bring wound healing back on track and be certain you are helping your patients.

SILVERCEL™ NON-ADHERENT Hydro-Alginate Antimicrobial Dressing with Silver with EASYLIFT™ Precision Film Technology is a nonwoven pad composed of alginate, carboxymethylcellulose (CMC) and silver coated nylon fibers, with EASYLIFT™ Precision Film Technology to help manage, under medical supervision, infected, exuding wounds.

PROMOGRAN™ Protease Modulating Matrix dressing is comprised of a sterile, freeze-dried composite of Oxidized Regenerated Cellulose (ORC), Collagen, with the addition of Silver/ORC in the PROMOGRAN PRISMA™ Wound Balancing Matrix dressing.
Your Patients Can’t Wait

Early treatment with V.A.C. VERAFLO™ Therapy can help interrupt the bioburden lifecycle by cleansing the wound and removing solubilized debris and infectious materials!^21,22,23

Whilst early initiation of V.A.C.® Therapy on acute and chronic wounds has been shown to reduce length of stay days in acute care, long term acute care, and home health.^12-16* 3M offers a range of specialized NPWT solutions to support your individual facility and patient needs.

The V.A.C. ULTA™ Therapy Unit is an integrated wound management system for hospitals that provides Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (V.A.C.® Therapy) with an instillation option (V.A.C. VERAFLO™ Therapy).

The ACTIV.A.C.™ Therapy System was specifically developed for the mobile wound care patient, to help them resume their activities of daily living while still receiving the proven benefits of portable V.A.C.® Therapy.

The SNAP™ Therapy System is a unique and convenient disposable negative pressure wound therapy (dNPWT) solution, ideal for patients that might benefit from silent, hidden, and wearable NPWT.

nurse observing wound on patient with venus leg ulcer.

Getting your patients back on their feet with 3M’s solution for VLU management

Get back on track with 3M's solution for VLU management

1. Protect skin: protect periwound skin areas exposed to moisture, friction and shear
  
  For routine skin protection, use 3M™ Cavilon™ No String Barrier Film
  
  For damaged or at-risk skin, use 3M™ Cavilon™ Advanced Skin Protectant
2. Manage bacterial bioburden that can be present in chronic wounds, including VLUs
  
  To help manage bioburden, use SILVERCEL™ NON-ADHERENT Hydro Alginate Antimicrobial Dressing with Silver with EASYLIFT™ Precision Film Technology
  
  To help manage malodour and bioburden, use ACTISORB™ Silver 220 Activated Charcoal Dressing with Silver
  
  To provide collagen/ORC that supports tissue repair and cell growth, use PROMOGRAN PRISMA™ Wound Balancing Matrix or PROMOGRAN™ Protease Modulating Matrix
3. Optimize wound environment and manage exudate
  
  To manage exudate, use 3M™ Tegaderm™ Silicone Foam Super-Absorbent Dressing, or 3M™ Tegaderm™ High Performance Foam Adhesive Dressing
4. Provide therapeutic compression therapy. Compression therapy is the gold standard of care for management of VLUs and has been shown to increase the rate of healing as compared to healing rates without the use of compression.
  
  3M™ Coban™ 2 Layer Compression System

Resources for practice and treatment of wound care patients

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References
*Early NPWT was defined for acute wounds as treatment initiated within the first 7 days from the first wound treatment date and within 30 days for chronic wounds; late NPWT initiation occurred after this time. A secondary analysis was conducted on a sub-set of patients where Charlson Co-morbidity Index Scores ≤5, to assess Early vs. Late cost differences by wound type, excluding the sickest patients with significant non-wound long-term care costs; this cohort represented 80% of the wounds.
1. Banasiewicz T, Becker R, Banasiewicz A, et al. Prevention and therapy of acute and chronic wounds using NPWT devices during the COVID-19 pandemic, recommendation from the NPWT working group. Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Journal. 2020;(7)4-9.
2. Page JC, Newswander B, Schwenke DC, Hansen M, Ferguson J. Retrospective analysis of negative pressure wound therapy in open foot wounds with significant soft tissue defects. Advances in Skin and Wound Care. 2004;17:354-364.
3. Falagas ME, Tansarli GS, Kapaskelis A, Vardakas KZ. Impact of vacuum-assisted closure (VAC) therapy on clinical outcomes of patients with sternal wound infections: a meta-analysis of non-randomized studies. PLoS One. 2013 May 31;8(5):e64741.
4. Scherer LA, Shiver S, Chang M, Meredith JW, Owings JT. The vacuum assisted closure device: a method of securing skin grafts and improving graft survival. Arch Surg. 2002;137:930-934.
5. Blume PA, Walters J, Payne W, Ayala J, Lantis J. Comparison of negative pressure wound therapy using vacuum-assisted closure with advanced moist wound therapy in the treatment of diabetic foot ulcers: a multicenter randomized controlled trial. Diabetes Care. 2008;31:631-636.
6. Armstrong DG, Lavery LA, Diabetic Foot Study Consortium. Negative pressure wound therapy after partial diabetic foot amputation: a multicentre, randomised controlled trial. Lancet. 2005;366:1704-1710.
7. Monsen C, Acosta S, Mani K, Wann-Hansson C. A randomised study of NPWT closure versus alginate dressings in peri-vascular groin infections: quality of life, pain and cost. J Wound Care. 2015;24:252-260.
8. Ozturk E, Ozguc H, Yilmazlar T. The use of vacuum assisted closure therapy in the management of Fournier's gangrene. Am J Surg. 2009;197:660-665.
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