NPWT powered by AQUACEL®
The Avelle™ NPWT System combines two proven wound therapies of AQUACEL® and NPWT into one system. Avelle™ works in synergy, to provide your patients with the proven benefits of NPWT along with optimal moist wound healing delivered by Hydrofiber® Technology.
Watch Bryen’s wound healing journey and experience as a patient living with the Avelle™ NPWT System:
A responsive wound interface engineered for NPWT
Convatec has been helping millions of clinicians worldwide to improve patient outcomes, enabling patients to move on with their lives through AQUACEL® dressings powered by Hydrofiber® Technology.
See below how the AQUACEL® Hydrofiber technology interface interacts with the wound environment:
FAST GELLING FLUID MANAGEMENT
- Fast gelling action with rapid fluid uptake1
- Minimises lateral spread to peri-wound area
INTIMATE CONTACT, RAPID AND HIGH ABSORPTION
- Swells into available spaces1-3
- Removes free fluid1, 2
- Contours to the wound surface3
- Fills dead space between the dressing and wound surface3
RETENTIVE GEL FOR BACTERIAL SEQUESTRATION
- Bacteria is entrapped within the gel & fully immobilised1, 4, 5
- Bacteria is separated from the wound surface and contained within the dressing1, 4, 5
The burden of hard-to-heal wounds
Many patients present with wounds with complications due to delays in admissions and access to specialist treatment.
Hard-to-heal wounds are devastating for patients, potentially causing long-term morbidity and impaired quality of life and incur a huge health economic burden for healthcare services.6
Patients with hard-to-heal wounds
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The interactive Avelle™ NPWT Dressing
The Hydrofiber® Technology interface and inner layers within the Avelle™ NPWT Dressing are engineered into an apertured design to allow negative pressure transmission through to the wound.
Patient benefits of the Avelle™ NPWT System
Learn how the Avelle™ NPWT System can benefit hard-to-heal wounds in a collection of case studies. Once registered you will have access to the following resources:
- Avelle Case study - Non healing traumatic wounds
- Addressing the challenges of open wounds with single-use NPWT - Journal of Wound Care publication
- Portable negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) is an effective therapy for hard-to-heal wounds in the community: a case series
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*Battery change may be required during pump lifetime
1. Waring MJ, Parsons D. Physicochemical characterisation of carboxymethylated spun cellulose fibers. Biomaterials. 2000;22:903–912.
2. Parsons D, Bowler PG, Myles V, Jones SA. Silver antimicrobial dressings in wound management: a comparison of antibacterial, physical and chemical characteristics. WOUNDS. 2005;17:222–232.
3. Jones SA, Bowler PG, Walker M. Antimicrobial activity of silver-containing dressings is influenced by dressing conformability with a wound surface. WOUNDS. 2005;17:263–270.
4. Walker M, Hobot JA, Newman GR, Bowler PG. Scanning electron microscopic examination of bacterial immobilisation in a carboxymethylcellulose (Aquacel) and alginate dressings. Biomaterials. 2003;24(5):883.-890.
5. Newman GR, Walker M, Hobot J, Bowler P. Visualisation of bacterial sequestration and bactericidal activity within hydrating Hydrofiber® wound dressings. Biomaterials. 2006;27:1129-1139.
6. Murphy, C. Implementation of Wound Hygiene in clinical practice: early use of an antibiofilm strategy promotes positive patient outcomes. Journal of Wound Care Vol 31 , No 1 , Suppl 1, January 2022.
7. Järbrink et al. The humanistic and economic burden of chronic wounds: a protocol for a systematic review. Systematic Reviews (2017) 6:15.
8. Assessment of the in-vitro properties Avelle™ Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Dressing. WHRI4520 MS128. Data on file. 2015. ConvaTec.
9. HFM-2015-017. Data on file. 2015. ConvaTec Inc.