​​​​​​​Innovation by Design: Adhesion Properties of New ConvaFoam™

Choosing a dressing can be challenging. Clinicians don’t have time to be overwhelmed by the choice of dressing or let down by its performance. So, Convatec invested in research and development to truly understand what patients, carers, and healthcare professionals need. Through active listening, combined with their heritage of advanced wound care technologies, Convatec created a hardworking yet simple dressing range that delivers skin protection and advanced wound management.

To create a dressing that offered improved clinical benefits, Convatec enhanced the silicone in their new ConvaFoam™ Silicone and Border dressings. The silicone adhesive has more precise and evenly distributed pores, which reduce the amount of silicone while improving adhesion.1,2

ConvaFoam™ is designed to stay in place with advanced adhesion properties: ^*1

• Skin friendly, gentle silicone adhesive^*3,4
• Silicone adhesive supports atraumatic removal^*3
• ConvaFoam™ adhesive dressings designed to be repositionable upon application to avoid wasted dressing changes^*1
• ConvaFoam™ adhesive dressings demonstrated to have improved adhesive strength compared to Mepilex® Border Flex, ALLEVYN Life and Biatain® ^*,**,1
• Silicone adhesive designed to minimize sticking to itself or medical gloves to aid ease of use.^*1

Both the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel (NPIAP) and the European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (EPUAP) recommend the use of prophylatic silicone-based dressings in order to prevent pressure injury.^5,6 ConvaFoam™ Silicone protects fragile and healthy skin from moisture, shear and friction damage when used as part of a pressure injury prevention protocol of care.^*6,7

*Not applicable with ConvaFoam non-adhesive dressings

**As demonstrated in-vitro

References

1. WHRI8050 MS172 Adhesion Characteristics of ConvaFoam
2. WHRI8196 MS176 ConvaFoam Pore Size
3. Soft Silicone Dressings Made Easy Meuleneire F, Rücknagel H Wounds International May 2013
4. Healthy Volunteer Study, CNVADH1F, 01 July 2022
5. National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel. Pressure Injury Prevention - PIP Tips for Prone Positioning. 2020.
6. European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel, National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel and Pan Pacific Pressure Injury Alliance. Prevention and Treatment of Pressure Ulcers/Injuries: Clinical Practice Guideline. The International Guideline. Emily Haesler (Ed.). EPUAP/NPIAP/PPPIA. 2019. [p22].
7. WHRI8052 MS174 ConvaFoam Dressing Characteristics for the use in Skin Protection