Tyco Healthcare

Complete wound care

Dressing wounds to help them heal properly can be complex, and difficult solutions are available to simplify the entire process, for both clinicians and patients, which provides an appropriate product for each phase of treatment as it is required.

Tyco Healthcare is a global leader within the healthcare industry, operating in more than 100 countries with reported fiscal 2002 sales of $7.9bn. Tyco owns and operates the following major businesses: Kendall, Auto Suture, Davis & Geck, Sherwood, Mallinckrodt, Graphic Controls, Valleylab, Puritan Bennett, Nellcor and many others. It is one of a number of operating divisions of Tyco International Limited.

With an extensive product portfolio, Tyco Healthcare has an ongoing commitment to the physician, the clinician and to nursing education as a whole. Additional medical education is provided for the more sophisticated Tyco Healthcare products. The company maintains a strong commitment to elevating healthcare standards across the globe. As a result, customers can confidently deliver the best care to patients in any setting, anywhere in the world. In addition to healthcare, Tyco International holds market leadership positions in the following sectors:

 
The role of traditional dressings
  • Exudate absorption and drying of the wound
  • Haemostasis
  • Antisepsis
  • Protection from infection
  • Covering of wound

The role of advanced dressings

  • Keep a moist environment
  • Remove exudate and necrotic tissues
  • Oxygen permeability
  • Protection from exogenous infection
  • Keep temperature constant
  • Non-traumatic when changing dressing
  • Easy to handle

Wound healing philosophy

Wound healing is a complex theme. Tyco aims to make the treatment of wounds as straightforward as possible, both for the clinician and his patient. Many factors must be considered in modern wound healing. Tyco Healthcare offers a wide range of traditional and advanced wound-care products that are effective and simple to use, whilst also being flexible enough to meet individual patient-care needs.

Open wounds have many different tissue appearances, and the treatment objectives for each phase may require a different approach. In addition, the wound may produce differing amounts of exudate in its various phases, which must be managed in an appropriate fashion. This influences the type of dressing that is selected for the treatment of the patient’s wound.

Wound dressings

These wound care systems are used to absorb and dry the wound of any exudate, to stop haemorrhage by means of haemostasis, and to cover and protect the wound from infection. Tyco has a wide range of traditional dressings to achieve these outcomes.

The moist wound healing philosophy was scientifically explained by Dr George Winter. These studies were initially published in 1962 in Nature1.

On the basis of these conditions, a new wound-care method was born, promoting and respecting the physiological healing processes. New materials were designed to provide the wound with the ideal moist wound healing conditions. Dressing materials included in this category were:

The clinician’s goal is to provide the best care plan for the patient. Tyco’s goal is to provide the clinician with a simple solution for the treatment of complex wounds.

 

Reference
1 Winter GD, ‘Formation of the scab and the rate of epithelialisation of superficial wounds in the skin of a young domestic pig’, Nature 1962, 193:293-294.

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