Re: cuts in Comfort liners
Greg Kidder
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Collection
Title:
Re: cuts in Comfort liners
Creator:
Greg Kidder
Date:
4/20/2001
Text:
on 4/20/01 9:10 AM, Joan Cestaro, C.P. at <Email Address Redacted> wrote:
> Dear members,
>
> We have been experiencing many Comfort gel liners (and Comfort plus liners)
> that develop a strange imperfection. The best I can describe this
> breakdown is that is appears as though a razor blade has made many small
> slices into the gel in a 1 or 2 area. We have many patients experiencing
> this and the rep as Ossur has no suggestions or knowledge of its cause. It
> was happening to other practitioners first and now to me. This breakdown of
> the liner ultimately causes breakdown of the patient's skin. It doesn't
> appear to be developing in the same places all the time. Sometimes it's
> distally, other times it is midway in the liner- nothing consistent to help
> identify a rationale. This breakdown sometimes happens after many months
> and we have been associating and rationalizing it with age and wear and
> tear. Other times it happens immediately (my patient has had hers for only
> 2 months) and is luckily under warranty.
>
> I have investigated the types of soaps (lotions, medications) used and the
> possibility that these patients may be leaving the liner folded. Speaking
> only for myself, I provide very good education to my patients on care and
> maintenance. I have not yet found any correlations. On one liner, we
> thought the antibiotic used for a patient's ulcer may have been the culprit,
> but it doesn't explain the other ½ dozen cases we've seen over these last
> few months. Have others been experiencing this? Anyone have suggestions or
> know the cause (apparently the manufacturer doesn't!)?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Joan Cestaro, C.P.
>
>
> Dear members,
>
> We have been experiencing many Comfort gel liners (and Comfort plus liners)
> that develop a strange imperfection. The best I can describe this
> breakdown is that is appears as though a razor blade has made many small
> slices into the gel in a 1 or 2 area. We have many patients experiencing
> this and the rep as Ossur has no suggestions or knowledge of its cause. It
> was happening to other practitioners first and now to me. This breakdown of
> the liner ultimately causes breakdown of the patient's skin. It doesn't
> appear to be developing in the same places all the time. Sometimes it's
> distally, other times it is midway in the liner- nothing consistent to help
> identify a rationale. This breakdown sometimes happens after many months
> and we have been associating and rationalizing it with age and wear and
> tear. Other times it happens immediately (my patient has had hers for only
> 2 months) and is luckily under warranty.
>
> I have investigated the types of soaps (lotions, medications) used and the
> possibility that these patients may be leaving the liner folded. Speaking
> only for myself, I provide very good education to my patients on care and
> maintenance. I have not yet found any correlations. On one liner, we
> thought the antibiotic used for a patient's ulcer may have been the culprit,
> but it doesn't explain the other ½ dozen cases we've seen over these last
> few months. Have others been experiencing this? Anyone have suggestions or
> know the cause (apparently the manufacturer doesn't!)?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Joan Cestaro, C.P.
>
>
Citation
Greg Kidder, “Re: cuts in Comfort liners,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 25, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/216310.
