• Highly absorbent:

Pharmapore^® Ultra Algi is highly absorbent due to presence of superabsorbent powder (sodium alginate) and also by capillary rise in nonwoven fibres.

• Creates moist wound healing environment:

Upon absorption of exudates, sodium alginate transforms into gel, which creates optimum wound healing environment, which in turn

• Enhances and promotes wound healing.
• Helps prevent scarring as it softens the wound and prevent formation of crusts.
• Forms a moist covering over the slough preventing it from drying out.

• Haemostat effect:

• Due to calcium-sodium exchange, Calcium ions which are vital for the clotting process to be successful are released into the wound, which ensures bleeding is stopped.

• Easy to remove:

• Gel formation prevents adherence of the dressing to the newly formed tissues and thus facilitates atrumatic, painless removal of the dressing.
• Moreover, the non-adherent wound contact layer prevents adherence of the dressing to the wound.
• Being different in construction from other alginate dressings in the market, Pharmapore^® Ultra Algi can be removed as one piece without leaving any residues in the wound.

• Conformable:

• The dressing is very soft and conformable, so it conforms to wound contours, It also becomes softer and more intimate to the wound after gelling.

Pharmapore^® Ultra Algi island dressings are used as primary dressing to manage full and partial thickness wounds, with moderate exudates which may also be prone to minor bleeding, e.g.:

• Pressure sores
• Leg ulcers
• Ischaemic and diabetic ulcers
• Post-operative wounds
• Skin graft donor sites
• Fungating carcinomas

Also Pharmapore^® Ultra Algi adhesive dressings are used to achieve haemostasis at the bleeding site after needle removal in the renal dialysis and for protection of orificium fistulae.

• The dressing may adhere if used on very lightly exuding wounds. If the dressing is not easily removed, moisten it with saline, and then remove.
• Do not use on patients with a known allergy to alginates.
• Do not use on dry or necrotic tissues.
• Whilst Pharmapore^® Ultra Algi assists in the management of wounds prone to minor bleeding, it is not intended to be used as a surgical sponge or to achieve haemostasis in heavily bleeding wounds.
• When used on infected wounds, the infection should be inspected and treated in accordance with local clinical protocol.