| The extriCARE™ bandage are used with Devon Medical extriCARE™ 2400™ pump. These bandages have a wound pad enclosed in mesh under a sticky film that can be applied directly onto the wound bed. There is a drainage tube that connects to a canister adjacent to the pump that collects exudates and bodily fluid. The bandages come in oval shapes as well as other designs. |
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| KEY PRODUCT FEATURES |
- Quick & Easy Application: Wound preparation time is approximately 15 minutes (competitors as long as 45 minutes). This allows wound care nurses and caregivers to see additional patients more quickly.
- Anatomically Fitted Bandages: Create tighter seals for all parts of the body, including various sizes and specialty bandages for the foot, and sacrum, etc.
- Able to handle multiple wound sites with use of Y Bridging Kit.
- Medicare Reimbursement Code: E2402
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Precautions & Warnings
Extra precaution and care should be taken when using Negative Pressure Wound Therapy in the following conditions:
- Bleeding and hemorrhage
- Hemostasis, anticoagulants, and platelet aggregation inhibitors
- Friable vessels and infected blood vessels
- Vascular anastomosis
- Infected wounds
- Osteomyelitis
- Exposed organs, vessels, nerves, tendons, and ligaments
- Sharp edges (bone fragments)
- Dressing being retained in wound
- Use in MRI environment
- Use in hyperbaric chamber environment
- Use with defibrillation
- Patient size and weight
- Use near vagus nerve (bradycardia)
- Patients with spinal cord injury
- Enteric fistulas
- Protection of periwound skin
- Circumferential dressing application
- Intermittent versus continuous pressure
- Transmission of infections agents
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| Contraindications |
The use of the extriCARE 2400™ device and bandages is contraindicated in the presence of:
- Necrotic tissue with eschar present
- Untreated osteomyelitis
- Non-enteric and unexplored fistulas
- Malignancy in the wound
- Exposed vasculature
- Exposed nerves
- Exposed anastomotic site
- Exposed bone or tendons
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extriCARE™ Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) Dressing Application
