#Clinicians securing critical tubes need to be confident in the tape they choose. New 3M™ Durapore™ Advanced Surgical Tape provides exceptional adhesion to meet clinicians’ securement needs.
ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--One of the most important, yet stressful jobs clinicians do is to ensure
critical, life-sustaining tubes are safely secured because even the
slightest millimeter of movement can be life-threatening for some
patients. While recent adhesive advances have incrementally improved
critical tube securement performance, clinicians are still facing
challenges to safe securement under hard-to-adhere-to conditions like
diaphoretic skin, saliva and humidity. To fill this clinician need, 3M
developed 3MTM DuraporeTM Advanced Surgical Tape,
a high-adhesion medical tape designed to provide safe, reliable critical
tube securement in challenging conditions like high-moisture
environments.
Unplanned extubations or dislodgement can significantly impact clinical
outcomes, patient care quality and cost targets1, so it’s
incredibly important that clinicians are confident that the tape they
choose will perform.
As part of 3M’s ongoing mission to redefine securement performance,
adhesive scientists met with numerous clinicians to learn more about the
real-world obstacles they encounter securing critical tubes. The
scientists replicated the conditions that most frequently led to
securement failure – such as humid, moist environments and various
surface textures – and put the tape through 3M’s most rigorous medical
adhesive research, development and testing process to date to make sure
vast performance improvements were achieved in high-adhesion to skin,
tubing and the tape itself.
Laboratory testing showed Durapore Advanced Tape outperformed
competitive tapes* in three key securement areas: adhesion to tubing,
adhesion to skin after moisture occurs and edge lift. In a study of pull
force needed to dislodge a tube from diaphoretic/moist skin, Durapore
Advanced Tape required 44 percent more force on average than other tapes2.
“When patient outcomes rely upon effective securement, choosing the
right medical tape is crucial,” shared Mel Wong, Global Business Team
Leader, 3M Medical Solutions Division. “We understand there’s absolutely
zero margin for error in safely securing patient tubes and devices.
That’s why we are committed to continuously challenging adhesive
capability boundaries. We want every clinician to have complete
confidence that their critical applications will stay in place, so they
can focus entirely on providing patient care.”
Durapore Advanced Tape’s design addresses three key performance needs to
help clinicians safely secure critical tubes:
Exceptional Adhesion Performance: Durapore Advanced Tape
maintains adhesion on oily or diaphoretic skin. The tape is also
unique in that it is not made with natural rubber latex, yet provides
better adhesion characteristics than latex-containing tapes2.
Minimal Edge Lift: Tape edge lift can lead to adhesion failure,
increasing the risk of extubation or dislodgement. In several studies,
Durapore Advanced Tape demonstrated minimal edge lift or adhesive
weakening after 72 hours of wear2,3.
Adhesion to Skin, Tubes, Devices and Itself: Successful
critical tube securement requires adhesives that can stick to multiple
surface textures. While some medical tapes can fail in one or more of
these categories, Durapore Advanced Tape adheres in all of them.
For more information about Durapore Advanced Tape, including results of
additional clinical evaluations against competitor tapes, please visit3M.com/DuraporeAdvanced.
Here you can also find educational resources on effective critical tube
securement and request a product sample.
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1 Shu-Hui, Y., Li-Na, L., Tien-Hui, H., Ming-Chu, C., &
Li-Wei, L. (2004). Implications of nursing care in the occurrence and
consequences of unplanned extubation in adult intensive care units.
International Journal of Nursing Studies, 41, 255-262. 2
3M data on file. EM-05-014441. 3 3M data on file.
EM-05-014427. *Durapore Advanced Tape outperformed Johnson &
Johnson ELASTIKON® Elastic Tape, Hy-Tape® and
Kendall™ Standard Porous Tape in adhesion to tubing/skin after moisture
occurs and edge lift studies.
3M™ Durapore™ Advanced Surgical Tape is a class-leading high-adhesion tape for critical applications and/or challenging conditions. (Photo: Business Wire)