Join the forefront of prevention
Together we’ll fight pressure injuries.
Pressure injuries have long been a challenge for patients and healthcare providers. When traditional methods fall short, it’s time to rethink your approach. Change is tough - it demands both knowledge and the courage to act. Mölnlycke, a leader in prevention, offers the expertise you need. Partner with us to enhance healthcare, boost efficiency, and improve your daily work. We don’t just talk about change; we make it happen.
Total Protection helps you reduce the occurrence and costs of pressure injuries.5 Use our comprehensive knowledge and clinically proven products to streamline your work methods, offer outstanding and cost-efficient healthcare, and ensure long-term protocol compliance.
Total Protection by Mölnlycke is made up of 3 key components:
HAPI Reduction Pathway
With our HAPI Reduction Pathway, we help you drive change that reduces hospital acquired pressure injuries. Our experienced team work alongside you to assess your baseline, define your strategy and implement the change. Improving patient outcomes, enhancing protocols and optimizing hospital economy.
Your Bundled Solutions
Head to HeelOur prophylactic dressings and positioning products prevent hospital-acquired pressure injuries, saving patients from suffering and reducing staff hours and hospital bed-days.3 Use our clinically proven solution bundles for comprehensive head-to-heel coverage and improved patient outcomes5.
Your Compliance Audit
Spot Check
The best way to reduce hospital-acquired pressure injuries is to consistently follow prevention protocols. Our Spot Check compliance audit helps you monitor compliance rates, accurate par levels, and staff proficiency, ensuring processes run smoothly and addressing any issues to maintain high standards.
reduction in pressure injury incidence1
reduction in pressure injury incidence3
reduction in per-patient treatment cost4
Yes its proven: Prophylactic dressings save costs
Digital solutions
Digital solutions and AI will drive a transformation of wound care where healthcare providers, patients and systems are connected for improved patient outcomes, reduced costs and informed decision-making. Mölnlycke works closely with healthcare providers, systems and patients to drive the transformation forward.
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Consequences for patients
- Pain and discomfort
- Potential wound complications
- Potential surgery
- Increased hospital stay
- Slower healing
- Lower quality of life
- Loss of income
- Potential death
Consequences for clinicians
- Increased workload
- Stress
- Sense of guilt and distress
- Strained relationships with colleagues
- Negative impact on performance review
- Poor salary development
- Loss of job or position
- Legal repercussions (for neglect)
Consequences for hospital management
- Increased treatment costs: more medications, frequent dressing changes, possible surgeries
- Poor patient turnover
- Poor patient outcomes
- Poor patient satisfaction rating
- Increased patient mortality
- Legal repercussions: costs for litigations/settlements/penalties
- Increased insurance premiums
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Reimbursement reductions
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Damaged hospital reputation
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Poor staff satisfaction
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Working environment issues
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Employee injury claims
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Lower RO!
Get started today
Let our Total Protection help you elevate your wound care practices. Reach out to your Mölnlycke representative today to learn how our integrated approach can make a difference for your patients and your facility. Together, we can achieve superior outcomes.
- Santamaria N, et al. A randomized controlled trial of the effectiveness of soft silicone foam multi-layer dressings in the prevention of sacral and heel pressure ulcers in trauma and critically ill patients: the border trial. Int Wound J 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/iwj.12101.
- Hahnel, E., El Genedy, M., Tomova-Simitchieva, T., Hauss, A., Stroux, A., Lechner, A., Richter, C., Akdeniz, M., Blume-
Peytavi, U., Löber, N., Kottner, J. The effectiveness of two silicone dressings for sacral and heel pressure ulcer prevention in high-risk intensive care unit patients compared to no dressings: a randomized controlled parallel-group trial. British Journal of Dermatology 2019 doi: 10.1111/bjd.18621. [Epub ahead of print] Mepilex Border Sacrum and Mepilex Border Heel - Kalowes P, et al. Five-layered soft silicone foam dressing to prevent pressure ulcers in the intensive care unit. Am J Crit Care. 2016;25(6):e108-e119.
- Padula William V. Effectiveness and value of prophylactic 5-layer foam sacral dressings to prevent hospital-acquired pressure injuries in acute care hospitals an observational cohort study. J Wound Ostomy Continence Nurs. 2017;44(5):1-6.
- Singh, C., Shoqirat, N., Thorpe, L., & Villaneuva, S. (2023). Sustainable pressure injury prevention. In BMJ Open Quality (Vol. 12, Issue 2, p. e002248). BMJ. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjoq-2022-002248.
