SURGICAL SPECIALTIES: Wound Management
Simpulse* VariCare* System >>> An innovative program for enhanced wound management
Benefits: - Provides controlled pressure below 15 psi guidelines† for optimal cleansing and irrigation.
- Facilitates quick, efficient removal of necrotic tissue, bacteria and foreign material .
- Site-specific treatment avoids possible maceration of adjacent tissue.
- Easy set up.
- Single patient use - eliminates sterilization and equipment maintenance.
- Minimizes potential for cross contamination or staff injuries resulting from lifting and moving patients.
- Ability to provide bedside treatment saves time.
- Less labor intensive than manual irrigation .
- Convenient kits available.
- The VariCare* SprayGuard* Sheet (pictured right) helps contain accidental spraying to the area under the sheet.
†US Dept. of Health & Human Services; Agency of Health Care Policy and Research, Treatment of Pressure Ulcers, Rockville MD 95-0652, December, 1994