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OUR SOLUTIONS® PROGRAM(S)
ConvaTec can guide you to evidence-based care practices that emphasize prevention, documentation, and standardized wound care protocols.
Solutions® Algorithms for Skin and Wound Care provides you with a series of standardized, content-validated guidelines that can positively influence treatment, reduce cost of care, and provide documentation consistency.1
In a clinical study of a comprehensive prevention program, the incidence of pressure ulcers was reduced by 87% using the Solutions
® Algorithms content-validated protocols of care, which included Aloe Vesta
® skin care products in addition to other proven modalities.
2- Products that promote skin integrity, manage infected wounds, and achieve optimal outcomes.
- Additional evidence-based education programs use standardized wound care protocols.
ConvaTec Solutions® Program(s) for Pressure Ulcer Prevention
Teach your staff measures to help reduce the incidence of pressure ulcers and incontinence-related skin breakdown.
Specific modules for certified nursing assistants (CNAs) and clinicians provide evidence-based algorithms and tools, as well as education, resources, and productbased training. |
ConvaTec Solutions® Program(s) for Infection
Give your staff the information they need to foster good hygiene and best practices to promote skin integrity, and manage and contain infection. |
| Wound Classifications and Interventions Program |
Other indication-specific programs on surgical wounds, burns, and chronic wounds provide staff with in-depth information. |
References [+]
- Bolton L, McNees P, van Rijswijk L, et al. Wound-healing outcomes using standardized assessment and care in clinical practice. JWound Ostomy Continence Nurs. 2004;31(2):65-71.
- Lyder CH, Shannon R, Empleo-Frazier O, McGeHee D,White C. A comprehensive program to prevent pressure ulcers in long-term care: exploring costs and outcomes. Ostomy Wound Manage. 2002;48(4)52-62.