Advanced care for low-to-moderate-risk incisions

Despite exciting advancements in incision care solutions and paradigms,^1–4 the same post-operative dressings used five decades ago are still regularly being used.⁵ These dressings are associated with a variety of problems that advanced dressings can often minimise or even prevent, including, but not limited to:​

• Surgical site complications^6–11​
• Frequent dressing changes^{6, 7, 12}​
• Delayed healing¹³​
• Patient pain and discomfort⁶​
• High clinical workload and costs ^7–9​

To address these and other issues in incision care, six consensus meetings were held across the world between 2019 and 2022.⁴ The experts discussed key topics and reached broad agreements in two areas:​

1. The ideal post-operative dressing should possess these six properties:⁴
   • Be flexible, enabling patient movement​
   • Stay on well​
   • Be highly absorbent​
   • Protect the skin from damage, such as blisters​
   • Be shower proof​
   • Eliminate dead space between the dressing and wound ​
2. The post-operative dressing should be changed only when clinically necessary, promoting undisturbed wound healing (UWH).⁴ This may reduce the risk of surgical site complications, patient discomfort, clinical workloads and costs^{4, 71, 13}

Mepilex® Border Post-Op, featuring Safetac® technology, is our cutting-edge solution for the management of closed incisions with low to elevated risk of surgical site complications and low to high levels of exudate. Offering up to 14 days of wear time,¹² it promotes undisturbed wound healing and possesses, with clinical evidence, all six properties of the ideal post-operative dressing as agreed by the experts.^{4, 14} As such, Mepilex® Border Post-Op embodies the recommendations from the international meetings, enabling you to adhere to expert consensus and provide the latest standard of incision care.