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The major areas where Keep-Dri Dressings help reduce the overall wound treatment cost includes :
A. Indirect cost reduction from minimising hospital stays, resulting from

  • Faster wound healing - factors promoting healing are not disrupted (wound temperature, chemistry, physical trauma)
  • Reduced infection/cross infection rate
  • Reduced patient trauma
  • Lower patient stress
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B. Direct cost in protecting dressings against showering/washing and changing wet dressings. Although no costs have been attached to any of the resources shown below due to variations between countries they all represent real costs to hospitals. In Australia direct savings are about $3.00 per useage.

Making shower protectors

  • Plastic shielding
  • Waterproof adhesive tape (1 meter required to surround a 25 x 20 cm Keep-Dri Dressing once)
  • Nurses time to make the protector (on average 4 - 5 minutes)
Unnecessary wet dressing changes - on average 40% of the time
  • Dressing pack 
  • Swabbing solution
  • Topical antiseptic - 30mls
  • Dressings (often more expensive dressings reduce the overall treatment cost)
  • Nurses time (approximately 10-15 minutes) 
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