SAWC Exhibitor Preview: The 20th Annual Symposium on Advanced Wound Care and the Wound Healing Society Meeting April 28 – May 1, 2007

3M Skin Health: Booth 408
  Stop by the 3M booth for simple, skin-friendly solutions. Experience a 7-day venous leg ulcer solution featuring the new, low-profile 3M™ Coban™ 2 Layer Compression System that allows use of normal footwear. See the new 3M™ Tegaderm™ Ag Mesh Dressing with Silver, a fast-acting, long-lasting antimicrobial barrier in an affordable dressing, and new sacral-shaped 3M™ Tegaderm™ Absorbent Clear Acrylic Dressing. Talk to noted industry experts about business strategies for running a successful wound clinic, MRSA and non-healing wounds, and lower extremity ulcer challenges. See the new packaging that makes Tegaderm™ Brand advanced wound care products easy to chose, easy to use, and easy to teach. And don’t forget to enter daily drawings for “A Healthy You” At-Home Spa Treatment Tote Bag.

Anacapa Technologies, Inc.: Booth 710
  Anacapa Technologies, Inc. announces the release of Silver Shield™ Silver Antimicrobial Skin & Wound Gel. Silver Shield™ is a non-irritating, non-sensitizing, non-cytotoxic clear, amorphous hydrogel that will not stain or discolor tissue. It exhibits outstanding antimicrobial barrier properties even in the presence of organic substances in wound fluid that are known to interfere with and inhibit the action of antimicrobial agents. Silver Shield™ is effective against bacteria including the antibiotic-resistant strains MRSA and VRE as well as fungi such as Candida albicans and Aspergillus niger. Silver Shield™ has been shown to maintain a high level of antimicrobial effectiveness for up to 3 days. It is is Medicare reimbursed; US and International Patents are pending. For more information, visit https://www.anacapa-tech.net.

Andover Healthcare: Booth 1126
  Andover Healthcare, a leading manufacturer of cohesive bandages, has supplied the healthcare industry with high quality products since 1976. Committed to new and innovative technology, Andover distributes its patented products world-wide. Andover was first to develop a truly cohesive latex-free bandage, first to offer cohesive bandages with controlled compression, first to introduce colors, and the manufacturer of exclusive prints.

  CoFlex® LF2 is a latex-free foam bandage that sticks and performs as well as a latex bandage. With an open cell foam surface, it absorbs and holds its latex-free cohesive, delivering a long-lasting cohesive bond. The bandage is unaffected by water, allowing it to stick and hold wet dressings in place. Designed with a thin, soft layer of specialty foam, CoFlex® LF2 is non-irritating and extremely gentle and can be used for all cohesive bandage applications including the treatment of edema, holding dressings in place, stabilizing IVs and providing a light compression wrap.

BlueSky Medical Group Inc.: Booths 611 and 613
  BlueSky Medical developed the Versatile 1™ Wound Vacuum System, a safe and cost-effective approach that may promote wound healing. BlueSky is a leader in suction technologies that emphasize wound applications such as negative pressure wound therapy. Our new V1STA Versatile 1 portable pump features multiple safety alarms and automatic high-vacuum release in a small, quiet, portable product. Sealing kits and skin products also are available – Lanabalm, for example, assists with problem cracked and dried skin. Please visit www.npwt.com as well as our booth to learn more about our products.

Calmoseptine®, Inc.: Booth 636
  Calmoseptine®, Inc. produces an effective, multipurpose moisture barrier that protects and helps heal skin irritations. People benefiting from Calmoseptine® Ointment need skin protection or have impaired skin integrity related to urinary and fecal incontinence, feeding tube site leakage, fecal or vaginal fistula drainage, moisture (ie, perspiration), diaper dermatitis, minor scrapes, and burns. The product also temporarily relieves discomfort and itching.

  Calmoseptine® Ointment is available in 4-oz and 2.5-oz tubes and 1/8-oz packets through the following distributors: Redline, Gulf South, Owens & Minor, Mercy Surgical, Briggs, Burrows, Medline, Allegiance, Professional Hospital Supply, Bergen Brunswig Medical, and McKesson-General Medical. Calmoseptine® Ointment is also available through most pharmacies and wholesalers.

Celleration, Inc.: Booth 313
  MIST Therapy is a painless, non-contact ultrasound device for modern wound care. A clinically proven healing device for wounds, its advanced bioactive therapy promotes healing through cellular stimulation while removing bacteria.

ConvaTec (Bristol-Myers Squibb): Booth 301
  ConvaTec’s mission is to enhance human life by providing the highest quality products in wound, skin, and ostomy care and is accomplished by our two divisions: Wound Therapeutics™ and Chronic Care. Our Wound Therapeutics™ division is proudly charged to deliver a comprehensive approach to wound healing with such products as DuoDerm®, Hydrofiber® technology – Aquacel® Ag, and the Aloe Vesta® Skin Care line. Our Chronic Care division pursues innovation without limits to provide ostomy products such as SUR-FIT Natura® and Esteem synergy® ostomy systems, Durahesive® Moldable Convex skin barrier, and InvisClose® clipless tail closure. ConvaTec, a world leader in ostomy and wound care, is truly dedicated to making a difference in people’s lives.

DermaRite Industries, LLC: Booths 900 and 902
  DermaRite is a manufacturer of personal care, wound care, and skin care products, working to bring you solutions for today’s wound and skin care problems in the long-term care environment. We help manage costs, improve outcomes, reduce risk, and improve the quality of life.

  The cost-effective alternative to name brands from a company you know and trust, we are your resource for hydrocolloid dressings, calcium alginates, hydrogel wound dressings, impregnated hydrogel dressings, transparent film, composites, island dressings, adhesive foam dressings, and silver dressings as well as rinse-free wound cleansers, antifungal ointment, alcohol-free skin protectant, perineal care, and much more.

  Join other professionals whose budgets have changed but whose standards and values have not. Visit our web site to see our complete product line: www.dermarite.com.

DM Systems: Booth 601
  DM Systems manufactures and markets a quality line of wound care products including original Heelift® and Heelift® Smooth Suspension Boots to eliminate heel pressure for heel ulcer prevention and treatment and Elbowlift™ suspension pad for the prevention of elbow discomfort and injuries. The patented Heelift® Boots were recently redesigned to feature more comfort, support, and easier, one-handed closure. Extended stitching along the top rim narrows the forefoot, increasing support to improve protection against foot drop, equines deformity, and heel cord contracture. New D-ring closures allow for easier strap adjustment. The original Heelift® Suspension Boot is for patients with non-edematous legs who prefer an option that allows for more air circulation and, therefore, a cooler boot.

  The Heelift® Smooth Boot is for patients with edematous legs and/or hypersensitive skin. Elbowlift offers exceptional protection against olecranon bursitis, ulnar neuritis, pressure pain, pressure ulcers, and skin injury. The newest product in the DM line is Heelift® Traction Boot, which is used for stabilizing presurgical fractures using skin traction.

Encompass Therapeutic Support Systems: Booths 104 and 106
  For more than 40 years, Encompass Therapeutic Support Systems (formerly BG North America) has provided clinically proven and cost-effective answers to support surface questions. Visit our booth and see our full line of pressure-redistribution systems. Check out our new AccuMax Quantum TA and Complete models, which offer caregivers the choice of non-powered pressure relief, alternating pressure, turn assist, and low-air-loss therapy, all at the touch of a button.

Ferris Manufacturing Group: Booth 100
  PolyMem® belongs to an innovative class of adaptable wound care dressings called QuadraFoam®. QuadraFoam dressings effectively cleanse, fill, absorb, and moisten wounds throughout the healing continuum. No other single wound dressing combines these four key wound-healing capabilities like PolyMem. This category of dressings has produced remarkable healing results for people with full- and partial-thickness wounds such as skin tears, skin ulcers, deep wounds, surgical wounds, and burns. QuadraFoam was awarded the Frost & Sullivan 2006 Product Differentiation Innovation Award for “exceptional solutions in the North American moist wound dressings market.”

  The PolyMem family of QuadraFoam 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 QuadraFoam dressings, many medical professionals are experiencing a tremendous increase in referrals as well as a healthier bottom line. Best of all, Ferris’s PolyMem formulation 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.

Gaymar Industries, Inc.: Booths 1108 and 1110
  Gaymar Industries, Inc – a manufacturer of pressure ulcer management support surfaces that provide unmatched outcomes, increased patient comfort, and caregiver satisfaction – provides innovative products and services to the healthcare marketplace.

  With a complete continuum of pressure ulcer management support surfaces from static air overlays to state-of-the-art lateral rotation systems, Gaymar provides solutions to meet all your clinical needs. Considered a leader within the clinical community and founder of the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (NPUAP), Gaymar provides the tools your facility needs to reduce your incidence of pressure ulcers and to quantitatively measure the success of your interventions.

  Gaymar offers programs that guarantee positive clinical outcomes and financial savings. Please visit our booth for additional information regarding our product and program solutions. You also may visit our website at www.gaymar.com> or call us at (800) 828-7341.

HEALTHPOINT®: Booth 414
  The promise of Healthpoint can be summed up in four words: Know more. Heal better. These words reflect the driving force behind everything we do. Healthpoint, a member of the DFB Pharmaceuticals family of companies, offers a spectrum of pharmaceutical and biologic products that provide active treatment for all stages of the wound cycle. Healthpoint products include: OASIS® Wound Matrix, Collagenase SANTYL® Ointment, PANAFIL® Spray/Ointment (papain, urea, chlorophyllin copper complex sodium), and ACCUZYME® Spray/Ointment (papain, urea).

  Healthpoint is committed to bringing new technology and education to our customers. Please visit our booth, call us at (800) 441-8227, or visit our website www.Healthpoint.com. Also visit www.TheWoundInstitute.com for CE/CME offerings, a site made possible by Healthpoint.

HMP Communications: Booth 619
  HMP Communications provides the medical community with a variety of quality medical journals and programs. Journals include Ostomy Wound Management (indexed in MEDLINE® and CINAHL®) and WOUNDS – both are official journals of the AAWC – ECPN, Skin & Aging, Podiatry Today, Annals of Long-Term Care, and Clinical Geriatrics, in addition to several cardiology-related publications. We also present the Symposium on Advanced Wound Care, along with numerous 1-day seminars and satellite broadcasts of medical symposia. Stop by our booths to meet the staff, purchase our new book, Chronic Wound Care: A Clinical Source Book for Healthcare Professionals, 4th Edition; sign up for email newsletters; or subscribe to one of our leading publications.

Hy-Tape International: Booth 112
  Hy-tape International has been selling its unique brand of waterproof surgical adhesive tape for more than 60 years. What makes Hy-Tape unique is its state-of-the-art, waterproof adhesive, which has been continually refined and updated over the years and is now entirely latex-free. The tape of choice for ostomy and wound care, Hy-Tape stays in place under the most adverse conditions and can remain on the skin for an extended period of time without causing skin problems underneath the tape. Our gentle zinc-oxide formulation protects delicate skin and helps keep it moist and healthy. Most importantly, both the individual patient and the healthcare professional can be confident that Hy-Tape Latex-Free will stay on when other tapes will not but remove gently and painlessly. Please visit our website at www.hytape.com or call (800) 248-0101 for samples and information.

KCI: Booth 101
  KCI USA is dedicated to the healing process, offering a continuum of products and therapies that meet demanding patient requirements in all care settings. At KCI, we combine unique therapeutic products and clinically based service and support to reach positive, cost-effective outcomes. Founded on Kinetic Therapy™, KCI has grown across the globe to provide solutions in bariatrics, wound care, and more.

  V.A.C.® (Vacuum-Assisted Closure®) Therapy is one of our latest innovations. V.A.C.® Therapy is an advanced system that promotes wound healing by applying localized negative pressure to the wound, removing interstitial fluid and infectious materials. It can be used to treat chronic open wounds (diabetic ulcers and pressure ulcers), previously nonhealing acute and traumatic wounds, dehisced wounds, and flaps and meshed grafts. Visit our booth to learn more about all of the dynamic products brought to you by KCI.

Lantiseptic Division, Summit Industries: Booth 831
  Lantiseptic is a unique lanolin-rich line of skin care products formulated to encourage proper moisture balance of the skin, supporting the body’s natural healing process and helping maintain skin integrity.

Medela Medical Technology: Booth 811
  Medela, Inc. is expanding its product offering of evidence-based medical technology to include advanced wound care. The Invia™ Healing System from Medela is a negative pressure wound therapy system that promotes healing in wounds such as pressure ulcers, diabetic ulcers, and traumatic, chronic, or acute wounds.

  Invia™ was specifically designed to be easy for nurses to administer and to minimize patient discomfort during dressing change. Gentle negative pressure is applied to the wound using the Medela Vario 18 AC/DC c/i aspirator in conjunction with the wound healing kit to remove infectious materials and mechanically stimulate tissue to promote wound healing.   For more information about the Invia™ Healing System, please contact Medela, Inc. at (877) 735-1626 or visit our website at www.medelasuction.com.

Medline Industries, Inc.: Booth 921
  Medline’s complete line of wound and skin care products includes the entire Carrington line of products, SilvaSorb™, Arglaes™, TenderWet® Active, XCell Biosynthesized Cellulose, Gentleheal Atraumatic Silicone Foam, Exuderm™, DermaGel™, SkinTegrity™, StrataSorb™, Maxorb™ Extra and Maxorb Extra Ag, MedFix™, SureSite™, Optifoam™ and Optifoam™ Ag, Puracol™ Collagen Microscaffold™ , Remedy®, and ReadyBath®. Visit our booth and ask us about our Educare™ Wound and Skin Care Education Program with CEU credits.

  We presently have more than 700 dedicated sales representatives throughout the country. In addition, Medline has more than 50 Wound Care Product Specialists, ET nurses, and an Educare Hotline to provide wound care support. With six manufacturing facilities and 27 distribution centers, Medline manufactures 70% of the products we sell.

Mölnlycke Health Care: Booth 1001
  In response to the problem in wound care of trauma and pain during dressing changes, Mölnlycke Health Care has developed a unique, patented, soft silicone technology called Safetac®. Dressings with Safetac soft silicone technology do not adhere to the moist wound, yet adhere gently to the surrounding skin and therefore minimize trauma and pain at removal.

  Mölnlycke Health Care’s wound care products and services stand for gentle and effective wound management. A number of products in our growing product line feature Safetac technology and provide less trauma and pain to both the wound and surrounding skin during dressing changes. We are pleased to introduce the newest addition to the Mepilex® family of products – Mepilex® Ag, an antimicrobial soft silicone foam dressing designed for the management of exuding wounds such as leg and foot ulcers, pressure ulcers, and partial-thickness burns. Other dressings featuring Safetac soft silicone technology include Mepitel®, Mepilex®, Mepilex® Lite, Mepilex® Border, Mepilex® Border Lite, Mepilex® Transfer, and Mepiform®.

  In addition, our conventional line of products features a saline system for debridement and hydration, a range of absorptive cover and transparent film dressings, a fabric tape, and a calcium alginate. These products include, Mesalt®, Normlgel, Hypergel, Mepore®, Mepore Pro®, Alldress®, Mefilm®, Mefix®, and Melgisorb®.

Organogenesis, Inc.: Booth 901
  Organogenesis, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and commercializes living, cell-based products. Our Apligraf product is the first and only fully differentiated bilayered cell therapy that is FDA-approved for the treatment of venous ulcers and diabetic foot ulcers. It expresses multiple growth factors found in normal skin, provides a biologically active matrix, and has been clinically proven to heal venous ulcers faster than compression therapy alone. In cases of diabetic foot ulcers, Apligraf closes more wounds faster than conventional therapy. In patients treated with Apligraf, both osteomyelitis and amputation were reduced 50%.

  Apligraf is easy to incorporate into practice and has a shelf life of 10 days. It has received positive reimbursement in all settings and has been well tolerated in more than 120,000 patient applications. For additional information, visit www.organogenesis.com or www.apligraf.com.

Sage Products Inc.: Booth 108
  With innovative products that address risk for skin breakdown, Sage is pioneering Interventional Patient Hygiene (IPH). To help prevent pressure ulcers, Prevalon™ Heel Protector delivers total heel pressure relief by completely offloading heels. It also helps prevent plantar flexion (foot drop). With all-in-one cleansing, moisturizing, deodorizing, treatment, and barrier protection, Comfort Shield® barrier cloths help treat and prevent incontinence-associated dermatitis (IAD). Sage’s new Peri Check™ Guides also promote skin monitoring for IAD and other problems. During bathing, Comfort Bath® with Skin Check™ empowers non-licensed staff to observe and communicate skin changes.

Smith & Nephew Inc.: Booths 700, 701, and 702
  A worldwide leader in the advanced wound care industry, Smith & Nephew develops products that help healthcare professionals treat both acute and chronic wounds more effectively and help patients get back to their normal lives faster. The company places particular emphasis on advanced wound care products, education, and prevention.

  Over the past few years, the company has introduced a number of products that incorporate leading edge wound care technology: ACTICOAT®, a nanocrystalline silver antimicrobial barrier dressing; VERSAJET™, a specialized fluid jet instrument that enables surgeons to easily remove damaged tissue and contaminants from surgical, traumatic, and chronic wounds in a precise and safe manner; and SECURA®, a high-quality skin care system. Smith & Nephew also offers an extensive range of advanced wound care products aimed at optimizing the wound environment, such as ALLEVYN® hydrocellular dressings and the PROFORE® compression system. In 2006, US marketing rights for the IODOSORB™ and IODOFLEX™ brands transferred from Healthpoint to Smith & Nephew Wound Management. IODOSORB and IODOFLEX are indicated for use in cleaning wet ulcers and wounds such as venous stasis ulcers, pressure ulcers, and infected wounds.

  For more information on effective, cost-efficient wound management and prevention, call our Customer Care Center at (800) 876-1261 or visit www.smith-nephew.com.

Stratus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.: Booth 904
  Stratus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a 17-year-old, privately owned minority manufacturer and distributor of pharmaceutical specialties for the dermatology and wound care markets. The company’s mission is to offer economical pharmaceuticals that save the industry considerable amounts in the acquisition costs of these products. Stratus is involved in the development of new, patented products for the specialties of dermatology, wound care, and podiatry. Stratus products are promoted and available nationwide.

  For the past 6 years, Kovia Ointment (papain/urea) and Ziox Ointment (papain/urea/chlorophyllin), two enzymatic debriding ointments, have been available in Nationwide GPO contracts and the Federal Government Contract at considerable savings to these institutions and are available in 1-oz tubes and in convenient 3.5-g unit dose packets in boxes of 100s.

  Peviderm is a wound care solution that cleanses, contributes to the regeneration of cells and resolution of the wound, and has been found to contribute to the elimination of bacteria and pain.

  Please visit our booth to receive information regarding these products. Samples are available to physicians and authorized prescribers.

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