Glycocalyx


Supplier of Glycocalyx

Glycocalyx is a line of advanced antimicrobial skin and wound cleansing and irrigation solutions. It is specifically engineered to target and eliminate biofilm-forming microorganisms to promote an optimal environment for wound healing.

Benefits:

  • Superior Biofilm Prevention: Demonstrates superior and consistent reductions in biofilm formation for both Staphylococcus aureus (including MRSA) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
  • Massive Microbial Reduction: Achieves over a 6-log reduction in microbial load across all tested implantable materials and pathogens compared to untreated control materials.
  • Safe and Synergistic Formula: Features a synergistic composition of 0.1% PHMB, chelators (EDTA), and vicinal diols, making it a broad-spectrum, safe, and effective antimicrobial compound.
  • Highly Reliable: Maintains its high efficacy even under conditions that closely mimic real clinical environments (such as in simulated synovial fluid).
  • Protects Implants: Unlike some other solutions, it does not note adverse material degradation (such as the erosion/wear on cobalt chrome and titanium seen with alternative solutions).

Where to Use

  • Surgical Implants: Designed to prevent biofilm formation directly on implantable medical materials, specifically tested and proven effective on:
  • UHMW PE (Ultra-High-Molecular-Weight Polyethylene)
  • Stainless Steel
  • Cobalt Chrome
  • Titanium
  • Joint Replacement Surgeries: Ideally suited for use during arthroplasty and joint revision procedures where synovial fluid is present and the risk of costly revision surgeries due to infection must be minimized.
  • Infection Prevention Protocols: As a key irrigation component in clinical settings to eliminate challenging, surface-adhering pathogens like P. aeruginosa and S. aureus.

How to Use

  • Pretreatment: Apply the surgical solution as a rinse or lavage over the target area/implantable material.
  • Contact Time: Ensure a contact exposure time of 2 minutes to allow the antimicrobial components to effectively coat and protect the surface before subsequent surgical steps or inoculation.
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