A temperature-sensitive, high-adhesion medical tape: a comparative, single-blind clinical trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Medical adhesives are used to secure wound care dressings and other critical devices to the skin. While high peel-strength adhesives provide more secure skin attachment, they are difficult to remove from the skin and are correlated with medical adhesive-related skin injuries (MARSI), including skin tears, and an increased risk of infection. Lower-adhesion medical tapes may be applied to avoid MARSI, leading to dressing or device dislodgement and further medical complications.

Method

This paper reports on the clinical testing of a new, high-adhesion medical tape, ThermoTape (University of Washington, US), designed for low skin trauma upon release. ThermoTape was benchmarked with Tegaderm (3M, US) and Kind Removal Tape (KRT) (3M, US). All three tapes were applied to

SUBMITTER: Swanson S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10798267 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature