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Silver Product Cost Comparison Per Silver Content (mg/100cm)
Proprietary Name Ag Content*
(mg/100cm) 		GPO
Pricing 		$/Silver
(mg/100cm)
Silverlon® 546 $ 13.75 $ .025
Acticoat® 7 105 $ 19.20 $ .182
Contreet® Foam  85 $ 12.37 $ .145
Aquacel Ag® 8.3 $   9.92 $ 1.195
SilvaSorb® 5.3 $   9.05 $ 1.70
* Steve Thomas, PhD., Director, Surgical Materials Testing Laboratory, Bridgend Wales, U.K. Supported by an educational grant from Smith and Nephew.

Cost of 1 Week of Silver Dressing Therapy for Heavy Exudating Wounds
(16 sq. in., High Bioburden )
Day                      Silver Product / Daily Costs (Premier Contract)
  Aquacel Ag® SilvaSorb®
Acticoat®
7 		Contreet® Silverlon® +
Aquacel® Reg.
Day 1 $ 9.92 $ 9.95 $ 10.44 $ 12.37 $ 13.75 + 3.90 = $17.65
Day 2   9.92   9.95   10.44   12.37   3.90
Day 3   9.92   9.95   10.44   12.37   3.90
Day 4   9.92   9.95   10.44   12.37   3.90
Day 5   9.92   9.95   10.44   12.37   3.90
Day 6   9.92   9.95   10.44   12.37   3.90
Day 7 -- -- -- -- --
Total Cost: $ 59.52 $ 59.70 $ 62.64 $ 74.22 $ 37.15


Rule # 1. Wounds with heavy exudate require high absorbent dressings.
Rule # 2. Heavy exudating wounds typically have high wound bioburden or infection.
Rule # 3. Impregnating expensive silver ions into inexpensive, throw-away-daily, absorbent substrates is counter intuitive and not cost effective.
Rule # 4. Parallels Rule # 3, Do not throw the baby out with the bath water!
(baby = silver)

When managing heavy exudating wounds, replacing the absorbent dressing is almost a daily necessity. In the early treatment of these types of wounds, Silverlon® offers you more silver ions and saves you money by separating the silver layer from the inexpensive throw away absorbent dressing. (One Silverlon® dressing for 7 days and 6 inexpensive absorbent cover dressings of your choice that can be disposed of daily)

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