Cutimed Calcium Alginate Dressing

Cutimed Alginate is a calcium sodium alginate (80% calcium and 20% sodium) made out of natural seaweed. The alginate component enables the dressing to absorb up to 20 times its own weight in exudate. Cutimed Alginate offers a broad performance spectrum, but is particularly useful for moderate to heavily exuding wounds, shallow wounds, lesions with rough edges, or deeper sites that are hard to dress.

Cutimed Alginate ? mode of action

The exchange of calcium ions within the dressing with sodium ions, which are present in the exudate, transforms the alginate into a moist gel.

• Facilitates moist wound healing by maintaining a moist environment
• Has haemostatic properties due to calcium ion release from the alginate dressing in contact with body fluids
• Reduces risk of maceration only one layer of exudate is maintained at the wound surface but excess exudate is absorbed
• Helps to clean the wound bacteria are trapped in the gel formed by the exudate absorbed and are then removed during dressing change

Cutimed Alginate ? user benefits

• Easily cut to size customisable application
• Highly flexible fibres conform to every wound base
• Excellent wet integrity easily removed intact

Cutimed Alginate ? patient comfort

Retains exudate in gel

• reduces leakage risk
• keeps patient as active as possible

Wet integrity enables

• rapid dressing changes
• minimal patient discomfort

High absorption

• reduces number of dressing changes

Indications

Wound characteristics:

• Moderate to heavily exuding wounds
• Shallow and deep wounds

Chronic wounds, such as:

• Venous ulcer
• Pressure ulcer
• Arterial ulcer
• Diabetic ulcer

Acute wounds, such as:

• Skin donor sites
• Abrasions and lacerations
• Superficial and partial thickness burns

NOTE: We recommend Fixomull transparent and Leukomed T as secondary dressings.

Cutimed Alginate advantages

• Maintains a moist environment
• Fast gelling
• Highly absorbent
• Retains the exudate in a gel
• Excellent wet integrity