Polyworm

Polyworm Dressing: A Comprehensive Guide to Healing and Comfort.

The Polyworm dressing is designed to facilitate healing, relieve pain, and reduce inflammation. Unlike traditional foam dressings that primarily absorb, Polyworm dressings offer a unique combination of ingredients to support the healing process. Each dressing includes a hydrophilic polyurethane matrix, a mild tissue-friendly wound cleanser, a soothing moisturizer, a superabsorbent, and a semi-permeable film backing. This synergy of ingredients provides unrivaled benefits for both clinicians and patients.

Here’s how Polyworm dressings work:

1. **Debridement and Cleansing**: Polyworm dressings continuously cleanse the wound bed, removing debris and managing exudate without disturbing the wound bed during dressing changes. This non-adherent property ensures that the wound remains undisturbed, promoting a healthier environment for healing.

2. **Stimulating Healing**: By drawing fluid, including nutrition and growth factors, to the wound, Polyworm dressings stimulate the healing process. This targeted approach helps reduce swelling and pain, which in turn reduces the risk of infection, supporting the overall healing process.

3. **Moisturizing and Comfort**: The moisturizer in the dressing prevents it from adhering to the wound bed, providing comfort at the site. This reduces the need for manual wound bed cleansing, often a painful process, and facilitates effective autolytic debridement.

4. **Pain Relief**: Polyworm dressings are effective in relieving persistent wound pain, procedural wound pain, and pain associated with activity. The unique formulation focuses inflammation where it is needed—within the wound—thereby reducing swelling and pain.

5. **Versatility**: Polyworm dressings can be used as primary or secondary dressings, or in combination, to support the entire healing continuum. They are available for wounds with dry, slight, moderate, or heavy drainage/exudate.

For more information or to purchase Polyworm dressings, please visit our website or contact us directly.

Founded in 1977, Ferris Mfg. Corp. has been dedicated to developing innovative products that bring desired and effective results to the healing process. Ferris is a privately owned producer and distributor of PolyMem, Shapes, SportsWrap, and Nursicare Dressings. The company is committed to providing superior quality products and service, meeting and exceeding international standards and regulations.

The Polyworm formulation was first patented in 1988 by Robert W. Sessions, a former director of biomedical research at Chicago’s Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke’s Medical Center. Ferris Mfg. Corp. and Sessions have received numerous awards and recognitions for excellence in medical product design and contributions to the medical profession.

If you have any questions or need further assistance, please contact us using the following methods:

• Toll Free: (800) POLYMEM (765-9636).
• International: +1(817) 900-1301.
• Fax: (817) 625-4277.
• Address: 5133 Northeast Parkway, Fort Worth, TX 76106-1822 U.S.A.