Episil

Silicone film dressing

Episil is a polyurethane film dressing with Silfix soft silicone contact layer, designed to protect the wound whilst minimising the pain and trauma associated with dressing change.The soft silicone adheres to surrounding dry surrounding skin but not to a moist wound.

The dressing is transparent, allowing observation of the wound site or primary dressing which minimises dressing change frequency. Episil has a very high moisture vapour transfer rate.

Use

Remove the clear plastic liners and place directly over a wound or primary contact dressing ensuring an overlap of around 2cm. Episil can be left in place for up to 7 days.

Top tip

Episil can be written on with a regular ball point pen, for such information as dates and wound mapping.

Indications

All exuding wounds including:

• Superficial epitheliasing wounds
• Retention of primary wound contact layers and absorbent dressings
• Surgical wounds

Contra-indications

Do not use if allergic to silicone.

Features

• Transparent
• High MTVR
• Bacterial barrier
• Atraumatic soft silicone, reduced pain on dressing change
• Soft and conformable
• Adheres only to dry skin
• Reduces sheer and friction

Ordering

If you are a pharmacy you can obtain our products through your wholesaler, even if they do not stock the product on their shelf it can be ordered as a special for you. Alternatively you can set up an account directly with Advancis Medical, please call 01623 751500.

If you are part of the NHS, our products are available through NHS Supply Chain, ordering codes are in the table above.