3M Tegaderm I.V. Advanced Securement Dressing is Comprehensively designed to help you deliver exceptional patient care through advanced catheter securement, enhanced wear time and gentle removal. This dressing is an option for smaller vascular access sites in pediatrics and adults and is safe to wear up to 7 days.
Features
- Size: 2 3/4 x 3 3/8 inch
- Conforming edge border: Uses technology designed to reduce edge lift.
- A waterproof, sterile barrier protects against external contaminants: Highly breathable transparent film.
- Large securement tape strip with notch: Promotes consistent application and enhances stabilization.
- Conforming keyhole notch: Allows catheter lumens to fit better and stay in place.
- Site visibility: Transparent dressing enables early identification of complications at the insertion site.
- Catheter securement: Designed to minimize catheter movement and dislodgement.
- Consistent application: Frame delivery makes placement accurate and easy for consistent application.
- Patient comfort: May be worn for the life of a PIV catheter, potentially reducing the number of dressing changes and restarts.
Instruction How to Use:
- Prepare: Prepare site according to facility protocol. Ensure site is completely dry.
- Press: Do not stretch the dressing at placement. Peel the liner from the dressing and place the dressing window over insertion site, aligning extension tubing with securement notch. Apply firm pressure to entire dressing with one hand for optimal adhesion, while removing border frame with opposite hand.
- Secure: Apply securement tape strip under the extension tubing and overlap back onto the dressing. Remove adhesive-free tabs. Document the dressing change information on the label strip. Apply label strip on top of dressing, over catheter lumen(s). Remove adhesive-free tabs. Secure tubing with tape.
- Monitor: Change the dressing:
- At least every 7 days
- If the dressing becomes loose, soiled or damp
- According to facility protocol
- Removal: Remove tape strips. Using a low and slow removal technique, start removing the dressing from where the catheter or tubing exits the dressing toward the catheter insertion site. Avoid skin trauma by peeling the dressing back rather than pulling it up from the skin.