Advancing Treatment with Innovative Technologies Affinity GJS
Poor management of vulnerable skin in the immediate peri-wound region or surrounding area can cause multiple problems for the patient and the healthcare professional.
The skin surrounding a wound is particularly vulnerable, and although it may appear healthy, peri-wound problems occur frequently. Many factors increase the risk of vulnerable skin, and clinicians caring for patients
with wounds must recognize that they have a crucial role in preventing peri-wound skin problems and in identifying patients at risk of developing them. Peri-wound skin damage contributes to protracted healing
times, can cause pain and discomfort, and may adversely affect a patient's quality of life[1]
Depending on the exudate level, the surrounding skin could be dry, macerated, excoriated, or inflamed. Between 60% and 76% of wounds (n=958) are surrounded by problematic or unhealthy peri-wound skin[2]. Damage to the peri-wound skin can arise from inadequate wound exudate management. This may occur with
dressings that cannot cope with the level of exudate produced.
The wound bed, edge, and peri-wound skin could be seen as three axes of a triangle, each significantly crucial for wound healing. There is no easy-to-use validated assessment tool specific toassessing peri-wound skin.[3] And, of course, no tooling for its implementation.
The wound bed, edge, and peri-wound skin could be seen as three axes of a triangle, each signifcantly crucial for wound healing.
1. Cutng KF. Impact of adhesive surgical tape and wound dressings on the skin, with reference to skin stripping. J Wound Care 2008; 17(4): 157-62.2.
2. Carter H, Barret S, Campbell K, et al. Wound management with the Biatain Silicone foam dressing: A multcentre product evaluaton. Wounds Internatonal 2014; 10(4): 26-303.
3. Caroline Dowset, Martn Nylרkke Gronemann, Keith Harding, Wounds Internatonal 2015 | Vol 6 Issue 1 | ©Wounds Internatonal 2015
Affinity GJS—Dynamic High Resolution microjet Technology
The association between wound bed, edge, and peri-wound skin is a critical challenge in wound treatment. Tavger Ltd's engineers developed a new device, Affinity GJS, that provides flexible, efficient treatment of wounds in single access in their complicated reality. The vacuum allows the miniature cylindric disposable TIP to hold and travel along wound surfaces.
Its super-tiny 50µ solution jets help to disconnect and remove necrotic tissue, biofilm, pus, and fibrine, level the wound edge, and remove an infection from the skin surface and soft tissue. Handle with installed
operation tip, manually scan the wound and vulnerable skin surface, changing the motion velocity, solution supply pressure, and vacuum strength, providing the physician with complete visual control, adjustment, dynamics, and high-resolution performance. Technology Affinity GJS controls maceration, infection, exudate production, and antiseptic or healing solutions infusion.