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Silvadene® Cream, Acticoat® & Silverlon® Cost Analysis -
7 Day Therapy for Burns
(16 Square Inch Area)

Product Size Application Nursing Time/Day
(Minutes per Day) 		Total Nursing Cost
($25/ hour,
7 days) 		Total Product Cost Total Cost per 7 Days
Silvadene® Cream 200g BID / 7 days 45 $131.25 $16.00 147.25
Acticoat® 4x4 2 - 3 Days 20 $58.33 $19.60 - 29.40 $77.93 - 87.73
Silverlon® 4x4 5 - 7 Days 15 $43.75 $8.00 - 11.20 $51.75 - 54.95

Assumptions: *

Silvadene® Cream applied every 12 hours
Acticoat® remoistened per protocol - 2.33 to 3.5 dressings needed for 7 days
Silverlon® remoistened per protocol - 1 to 1.4 dressings needed for 7 days
Miscellaneous costs of gauze and tape roughly equal across all treatments

Silverlon® BCD 4″x4″ dressings weigh approximately 2.40 grams each. Of that, 19.23% is metallic silver, which means that there is 0.4600 g (460 mg) of silver on each dressing. At 24 hours, the dressing releases 42.615 ppm (mg/L), releasing 9-10% of the total silver capacity, which is more than 5 times what is necessary for an effective kill of pseudomonas (8ppm) and 3 times for MRSA (12 ppm). And there is a huge residual of metallic silver on the nylon fabric to impede any bacteria growing there and reinfecting the wound.


Silver Sulfadiazine Cream, on the other hand contains 1% silver sulfadiazine by weight, and since only 30% of that compound is actually silver, that means that there is only 0.0030 g (3mg) released (assuming the best case of 100% release) for each gram of cream. Thus it would take over 14 grams of cream to release the same amount of silver as does one Silverlon® 4″x4″ dressing at 24 hours. Silver Sulfadiazine cream is recommended to be applied at 1/16 inch thickness-at that thickness, a 16 sq. inch area would take about 14 g of the cream.

* - The Standard Guidelines of Use above were written by Doctor David Marx, a Polymer Chemist at the University of Scranton in PA.

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