3M Tegaderm High Gelling Alginate Dressing - 4" x 4"

• Highly conformable
• For use on heavily exuding wounds
• High gelling properties
• Removes easily and gently

3M™ Tegaderm™ High Gelling Alginate Dressing is a sterile, highly conformable, and absorbent primary wound care dressings for use on moderately to heavily exudating wounds.

Tegaderm™ High Gelling Alginate Dressing becomes an amorphous gel-like mass when saturated. The saturated dressing may be gently irrigated from the wound bed at dressing change. The dressing becomes a gel-like consistency as it absorbs exudate which provides a moist wound healing environment with easy removal. This dressing is ideally suited for the management of moderately to heavily exudating partial and full thickness wounds and is compatible with the 3M family of secondary dressings.

Product Benefits:

• Form a gel-like consistency as they absorb exudate to provide a moist healing environment.
• Highly absorbent dressings.
• Versatile styles available to meet your performance needs: Tegaderm™ High Integrity Alginate Dressing retains its integrity when saturated for quick and easy removal; Tegaderm™ High Gelling Alginate Dressing completely gels with saturation for easy removal from fragile tissue by gentle irrigation.
• Compatible with 3M secondary dressings to allow you to standardize with a single manufacturer.

Product Applications:

• Moderately to heavily exudating, partial- and full-thickness wounds
• Dermal ulcers: pressure, arterial, venous, and diabetic
• Donor sites
• Trauma wounds and abrasions
• Open surgical wounds

Product Specifics and Packaging

• Size: 4" x 4"
• Alginate Gel
• Packaged in pouch containing 1 dressing
• Box of 10 pouches