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daylily
What are you using instead of Biopatch when allergic?
On the rare occasion patients have had sensitivities.  We are looking for a substitute/alternative for these patients.  What are you using? 
lynncrni
How do you know they are

How do you know they are allergic to the Biopatch? I am assuming that you are meaning an allergy to chlorhexidine but how do you know that this what they are actually allergic to. 

 

Lynn Hadaway, M.Ed., RN, BC, CRNI

www.hadawayassociates.com

Lynn Hadaway, M.Ed., RN, NPD-BC, CRNI

Lynn Hadaway Associates, Inc.

PO Box 10

Milner, GA 30257

Website http://www.hadawayassociates.com

Office Phone 770-358-7861

momdogz
  Are you putting the

 

Are you putting the biopatch on dry skin?  If you've recently used chorhexidine+IPA, did you let it air dry long enough?  Minimum of one minute dry time.... 

Otherwise:  we are also looking at Silverlon, and another silver disc product from Medline (don't know much about that one yet). 

 

Mari Cordes, BS RN 

Nurse Educator IV Therapy
Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington VT
Educator, Bard Access Systems 

Mari Cordes, BS RNIII VA-BC
Vascular Access Department
University of Vermont Medical Center

daylily
We have had both scenarios -

We have had both scenarios - allergy to chlorhexidine and sensitivity to only the Biopatch.  Yes, Biopatch is placed on dry skin. 

A few patients have reported that the entire time the Biopatch was against their skin they itched.  When removing the Biopatch the skin was red.  No problem once it was removed and only cleansed with Chlorprep.

This is a very small number of people, however, we would like an alternate product for them.  We have looked at DeRoyal silver.  The problem is since it is such a small number of people it will be difficult to truly evaluate.

momdogz
We can let you know what our

We can let you know what our experience is with the two Silver products - may be a month or two minimum. 

 

Mari Cordes, BS RN 

Nurse Educator IV Therapy
Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington VT
Educator, Bard Access Systems 

Mari Cordes, BS RNIII VA-BC
Vascular Access Department
University of Vermont Medical Center

kmills
We will be trialing the new
We will be trialing the new 3M CHG tegaderm to replace the biopatch. We have not really experienced any skin problems with the bioptach but have had a few complaints about itching under the disc. We feel it is the material the disc is made from rather then the CHG. We have more concerns with other aspects of the biopatch such as site observation that we would like to correct and thus we are trialing the 3M product.
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