- Quick Treatment Time
- Total treatment time: 60 seconds
- 15 seconds per swabstick (4 swabsticks)
- Up to 2.5x faster than other PVP-Iodine products
- Efficacy
- Kills 99.7% of S. aureus at 1 hour and 99.9% at 12 hours
- Easy Application
- Each kit contains 4 pre-saturated swabsticks
- Neat, dry-handle design for limited mess
- Small nasal swab for patient comfort
- Easy to use snap and swab design
- Self-contained, pre-saturated and ready to go
- Compliance
- Applied to patient by clinical staff for assured compliance
- Antimicrobial Stewardship
- Utilizes a broad-spectrum antiseptic rather than an antibiotic, such as mupirocin, to support antimicrobial stewardship goals
- Formulation
- 10% Povidone-Iodine (PVP-I)
- Ideal for
- S. aureus and MRSA-colonized patients in the surgical unit, ICU, and other areas of the hospital
- CDC Strategy for Nasal Decolonization
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- Profend® Nasal Decolonization Kit meets nasal decolonization core strategy to prevent infections in high-risk surgeries, critical care and central IV catheter patients
- AORN Guideline on Preoperative Patient Skin Antisepsis
- Profend® Nasal Decolonization Kit meets the new recommendations for nasal decolonization as per the AORN Guideline on Preoperative Patient Skin Antisepsis
Contents:
- (12) Kits/Box