Balancing Moisture and Bacteria to Create an Ideal Healing Environment
AMD Antimicrobial Foam Dressings
Chronic wound care requires a precise balance of managing moisture and bacteria. Kendall™ AMD antimicrobial foam dressings have been developed to support your efforts in managing both moisture and bacterial balance. The dressings are made of an open-cell polyurethane foam and are impregnated with 0.5% Polyhexamethylene Biguanide (PHMB), a highly effective low-toxicity antiseptic. Effective against gram positive and gram negative bacteria, and also effective against fungi and yeast, AMD antimicrobial foam dressings are compliant with most existing wound care protocols.
Kendall™ AMD antimicrobial foam border dressings are designed to help prevent complications like friction and shear injuries. A better wound environment leads to better patient outcomes. Kendall™ AMD antimicrobial foam dressings provide an ideal healing environment by simultaneously managing moisture and bacteria in the dressing. As the foam dressing absorbs exudate, PHMB targets and kills bacteria on contact.
Kendall™ AMD antimicrobial foam is also available in 25 mm (1 inch) discs.
The powerful protection of Kendall™ AMD antimicrobial foam dressings are also available in foam discs which are effective for up to 7 days. The PHMB impregnated foam discs help to provide a barrier of protection for catheter insertion sites such central venous catheters (CVC) and peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs). The Kendall™ AMD antimicrobial foam discs are also ideal for use around external fixation devices.
Kendall™ AMD antimicrobial foam discs help to improve patient outcomes by:
- Helping to protect against CRBSI (catheter related blood stream infections)
- Protecting insertion sites from harmful bacteria such as MRSA & VRE
- Providing efficacy for up to 7 days
- Limiting cross contamination
- Promoting a healthy wound (insertion) environment
Indications
Kendall™ AMD antimicrobial foam dressings are indicated for use in management of post-surgical incisions, pressure ulcers, venous stasis ulcers, diabetic ulcers, donor sites, abrasions, lacerations, 1st and 2nd degree burns, dermatologic disorders, other wounds inflicted by trauma and, as a secondary dressing or cover dressing for packed wounds.
It is an ideal dressing in the local management of exudate that may occur at surgically induced body exit sites such as tracheostomy, G-tube, J-tube, Penrose drain, chest tube, nephrostomy tube, sump drain, I.V. catheters, central venous lines, arterial catheters, dialysis catheters, peripherally inserted coronary catheters, mid-line catheters, externally placed orthopedic pins and epidural catheters.
AMD Antimicrobial Foam Dressings Features
Kendall™ AMD antimicrobial foam dressings are uniquely engineered to simultaneously manage moisture and bacteria, thus promoting an ideal, moist wound healing environment. The dressings feature:
- A micro-structured, open-cell surface that absorbs exudate
- Vertical wicking action that moves fluid into foam core
- A dense core that maximizes retention of exudate
- Soft and comfortable
- Contain PHMB (Polyhexamethylene Biguanide)
- Supports a moist and bactericidal environment, providing a balanced environment
- Resist bacterial colonization within the dressing
- Reduce bacterial penetration through the dressing
- Unique mode of action; Foam absorbs wound fluid; PHMB binds to foam material and kills bacteria
- Provides protection against gram-, gram+ ( including MRSA and VRE) and fungi/yeast microorganisms
- Limits cross-contamination from and to the patient, clinician and environment
- Proven effective against repeated contamination for up to seven days
- Sterile and hypoallergenic
- Have been commonly used for 75 years with no known resistence
- Cost less than most antimicrobial treatments and silver dressings
- Compliant with most existing wound care protocols
Polyhexamethylene Biguanide (PHMB)
- PHMB binds to bacteria’s phospholipid (outer) membrane
- Disrupts membrane, causing cytoplasm to leak out
- Bacterial cell’s protective layer disintegrates
- Bacterial cell collapses and dies
- Nothing is left behind to mutate or replicate, so there is no known resistance
- PHMB in the dressing continues to provide bacterial protection
PHMB is a safe, stable chemical with over 75 years of commercial use in such products as baby wipes, contact lens solutions and pool cleaners.
- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
- Vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (VRE)
- Acinetobacter Baumannii (MDRAB)
- Clostridium difficile (C. Diff)
- Staphylococcus aureus
- Staphylococcus epidermidis
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- Escherichia coli
- Candida albicans
- Staphylococcus coagulase
- Proteus mirabilis
- Serratia marcescens
- Enterobacter cloacae
- Klebsiella pneumoniae
- Enterococcus faecalis
