Oral Hygiene

The oral hygiene solu­tions offered by Sage for patient care are prod­ucts that com­ply with the lat­est guide­lines from med­ical and nurs­ing soci­eties, and have been sup­port­ing health­care work­ers for years in pre­vent­ing the occur­rence of VAP (Ven­ti­la­tor-Asso­ci­at­ed Pneu­mo­nia). The effec­tive­ness of these prod­ucts in this area is con­firmed by clin­i­cal stud­ies, and the exten­sive range includes both 24-hour kits (for 3 or 6 pro­ce­dures) ensur­ing com­pli­ance with the oral hygiene pro­to­col rec­om­mend­ed by the guide­lines, and indi­vid­ual kits.

The 24-hour kits are pack­aged in a way that allows the sys­tem to be hung by the patien­t’s bed, for exam­ple, on an IV stand, and allows indi­vid­ual pack­ages num­bered for the pro­ce­dures to be detached. This set­up enables staff to con­stant­ly mon­i­tor the num­ber of pro­ce­dures per­formed, which facil­i­tates adher­ence to the cur­rent oral hygiene pro­to­col.

Each of the Sage oral hygiene kit pack­ages also serves as a con­tain­er for the flu­id, and the unique design of the mouth­wash sachets allows the sachet to be opened before open­ing the indi­vid­ual pack­age. This solu­tion min­i­mizes the risk of con­t­a­m­i­nat­ing the flu­id sachet and short­ens the entire procedure—the tooth­brush or sponge is already soaked with the solu­tion and ready for use once removed from the pack­ag­ing. Addi­tion­al­ly, each of the 24-hour sys­tem pack­ages has a han­dle for hang­ing a ded­i­cat­ed Yankauer type catheter, which is avail­able in Sage’s oral hygiene prod­uct port­fo­lio.

The design of Sage tooth­brush­es, with their small heads and bends, allows access to hard-to-reach areas in the oral cav­i­ty, and the three suc­tion holes enable effec­tive secre­tion suc­tion. The brush­es have over 3100 con­tact points in the form of nylon bris­tles, and on the oppo­site side of the head, there is a trans­verse­ly cor­ru­gat­ed sponge that sup­ports the stim­u­la­tion of oral tis­sues.