SAWC Spring 2013 Exhibitors Preview

Symposium on Advanced Wound Care and the Wound Healing Society Meeting May 1–5, 2013 Colorado Convention Center Denver, Colorado One of the highlights of the Symposium on Advanced Wound Care (SAWC), now celebrating its 26th year, is the extensive Exhibit Hall. Dedicated hours ensure maximum opportunity for attendees to visit the more than 300 booths and glean clinical and product information necessary for the provision of quality care. One-on-one time with manufacturers, sessions on the science behind the products, live demonstrations, and product giveaways— plus, a Grand Opening Cocktail Reception and free lunches — underscore the value of the SAWC Exhibit Hall. Here’s just a sampling of what attendees can anticipate at this year’s Symposium. Be sure to complete your SAWC plans at www.sawc.net.

Calmoseptine Ointment: Booth 329

  Calmoseptine Ointment is a multipurpose moisture barrier that protects and helps heal skin irritations from moisture, such as urinary and fecal incontinence. Calmoseptine Ointment temporarily relieves discomfort and itching. Free samples at our booth!

ConvaTec Inc: Booth 608

  ConvaTec is a leading developer and marketer of innovative medical technologies that have helped improve the lives of millions of people worldwide. With four key focus areas — Ostomy Care, Wound Therapeutics, Continence and Critical Care, and Infusion Devices — ConvaTec products support healthcare professionals from the hospital to the community health setting. AQUACEL® dressings with Hydrofiber® Technology, exclusively from ConvaTec, gel on contact with wound exudate, providing clinicians and patients with substantial benefits. As demonstrated in vitro, this unique gelling action locks in exudate and harmful bacteria and microcontours to the wound bed. Supported by more than 15 years of clinical evidence, AQUACEL® and AQUACEL® Ag dressings are available in a variety of sizes and shapes to help protect and heal wounds, surgical incisions, burns, and more. With advanced products for professional skin care, ostomy, and fecal management, ConvaTec is dedicated to helping you protect vulnerable skin, prevent infection, and reduce costly complications.

Cytomedix, Inc: Booth 814

  Cytomedix develops biologically active regenerative therapies for wound care, angiogenesis, and inflammation. We harness the complex balance of essential life processes to mirror the body’s therapeutic efficiency. Chronic nonhealing wounds are often stuck in the inflammatory stage of wound repair. Lack of perfusion or pressure prevents blood-delivered proteins from reaching the wound bed. Some wounds remain unhealed for years. The AutoloGel™ System may restart the natural healing process, moving the wound out of the inflammatory phase. AutoloGel™ delivers platelet-rich plasma gel (PRP), containing the patient’s own growth factors, cytokines, and chemokines, to the wound bed, creating an extracellular matrix for cell migration, capillary growth, and tissue granulation. The AutoloGel™ System is the only Food and Drug Administration-cleared system for use at point-of-care for the safe and rapid preparation of PRP from a small sample of the patient’s blood. It is used for exuding wounds such as leg ulcers, pressure ulcers, and diabetic ulcers and for mechanically and surgically debrided wounds. The AutoloGel™ System is a convenient and cost-effective solution for nonhealing wounds.

Derma Sciences, Inc: Booth 411

  Derma Sciences, Inc is a specialty medical device/pharmaceutical company focused on developing novel and technologically advanced wound care products that address every stage of a patient’s wound management needs. Our full portfolio of products includes our market-leading MEDIHONEY®, XTRASORB®, BIOGUARD®, ALGICELL® Ag, and TCC-EZ®.

Ferris Mfg. Corp: Booth 328

  Drug-free, multifunctional PolyMem® dressings (generically referred to as polymeric membrane dressings) are recognized to effectively cleanse, fill, absorb, and moisten wounds throughout the healing continuum. The dressings help reduce edema and bruising in open and closed injuries and reduce both persistent and procedural wound pain. The dressings help reduce the spread of inflammation into surrounding undamaged tissues without interfering with the robust, localized inflammatory response required for healing.

  This unique category of dressings has produced remarkable healing results for people with full- and partial-thickness wounds such as skin tears, leg ulcers, pressure ulcers, diabetic ulcers, surgical wounds, and burns. The formulation is available with or without silver.

  The PolyMem family of dressings offers practitioners the opportunity to create an optimal healing environment. Because of the heightened levels of patient satisfaction and cost savings when using PolyMem dressings, many medical professionals see an increase in referrals as well as a healthier bottom line. Best of all, Ferris Mfg. Corp PolyMem dressing formulations can benefit a range of patients from babies to the elderly and from the physically challenged to professional athletes.

  Discover the difference with PolyMem advanced wound care products. Visit the PolyMem booth at the SAWC to learn how to integrate this dressing into your practice.

Hollister Wound Care: Booth 310

  Experience our newest offering: Endoform dermal template. Endoform has the strength of a dermal template with the simplicity of a collagen. Endoform dermal template contains 90% collagen and 10% intact, native ECM components, which provides broad-spectrum MMP reduction, accessibility to all clinicians, and cost efficiency through once- per-week applications. Stop by our booth to learn more about Hydrofera Blue dressings and their bacteriostatic mechanism of action.

Organogenesis Inc: Booth 707

  Organogenesis, Inc is a world-leading regenerative medicine company focused in the areas of bioactive wound healing and oral regeneration. Organogenesis delivers living tissue on demand, and its mission is to bring the medical marvel of regenerative medicine products to patients and to standardize their use in everyday medical care. Apligraf®, the company’s flagship product, is the first and only fully differentiated, living, bilayered, cell-based product that has FDA approval for the treatment of both venous leg ulcers and diabetic foot ulcers. When placed on a wound previously unresponsive to treatment, Apligraf® plays an active role by providing cells and proteins that help promote healing. Apligraf® is easy to incorporate into practice. Positive reimbursement is attainable in all settings. More than 500,000 units of Apligraf have been shipped to treat patients.

Summit Industries Inc: Booth 543

  Hundreds of skin problems, one serious solution: Lantiseptic. Made in the US, Lantiseptic is focused on delivering skin care solutions. Professionals have trusted and recommended Lantiseptic for their patients’ care for years. Lantiseptic Skin Care Regimen helps prevent F-Tags by improving quality care and economic outcomes with products that clean, moisturize, protect, and treat.

This article was not subject to the Ostomy Wound Management peer-review process.