Consideration 1:
Is the patient high-risk for complications?1
Consideration 2:
Does patient have two or more high-risk factors?
Consideration 3:
Which PICO Dressing size best fits the incision?
Treating the zone of injury
The underlying tissue is damaged during surgery but the PICO dressing can be placed over the entire zone of injury. This means you are not only treating the incision but the surrounding tissue around the incision.1
Clinical images provided courtesy of Dr Mattias Brem
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- Sugrue M et al., World Union of wound Healing Societies (WUWHS) Consensus Document. Closed surgical incision management: understanding the role of NPWT. Wounds International, 2016.