Use of wound dressings with soft silicone adhesive technology

Abstract

This study provides further evidence of the ability of dressings with Safetac soft silicone adhesive technology to minimise trauma and pain and demonstrates the ability of Mepilex Border Lite to overcome the clinical challenges associated with the use of dressings on the wounds/skin injuries of paediatric patients.

Randomized controlled trial of three burns dressings for partial thickness burns in children

“…The results have shown advantages in using a dressing with a silicone interface (Mepilex Ag TM ) compared to a dressing without (Acticoat TM ). Dressings that are silicone or have silicone interfaces, adhere to normal, intact skin and remain in situ on the surface of a wound but do not adhere to it, maintaining a moist wound environment while providing a less traumatic removal and subsequently less epidermal damage [16,17]. Comparatively, dressings that can adhere wound beds, such as Acticoat TM , potentially cause trauma on removal, increase pain and promote skin stripping which has been found to delay wound re-epithelialization [18].…”

Silicone‐Based Adhesives with Highly Tunable Adhesion Force for Skin‐Contact Applications

“…It is known that the silicones have biocompatibility (nontoxic, nonirritating, and nonsensitizing), flexibility, temperature stability (beyond 250 °C), chemical inertness (lack of chemical reactivity), and environmental stability . These features make silicone‐based adhesives suitable for many medical applications including tapes, wound dressings for scar management, wearable devices, and transdermal drug delivery applications …”

Double layer adhesive silicone dressing as a potential dermal drug delivery film in scar treatment

“…Among silicone-based materials designed for skin application, where proper attachment onto the skin is essential for therapy effectiveness, most common are: pressure-sensitive silicone adhesives (PSSA), used in the formulation of transdermal patches (Ho and Dodou, 2007;Rippon et al, 2007), silicone soft skin adhesives (SSA), used in advanced wound care treatment as matrices for delivery of active substances (Rippon et al, 2007;Moris et al, 2009), modern dressings used in therapy of chronic wounds (so called active dressings) (Valenta and Auner, 2004), soft silicone dressings, used for prevention of scarring in an acute traumatic wound (Meuleneire, 2007), silicone gel dressings (De Oliveira et al, 2001), silicone gel sheetings (SGS) (Borgognoni, 2002) and silicone-filled cushions (Berman and Flores, 1999) used for surgical scars. Unique application of silicone elastomers related to their physical properties is scar therapy, mostly therapy of hypertrophic scars, keloids and burn scars (Berman et al, 2007;Momeni et al, 2009;Bloemen et al, 2009;Mustoe, 2008; Van den Kerckhove et al, 2001;Wolfram et al, 2009).…”