CASE STUDY:
Efficiency, cost optimization and patient’s skin improvement at an Intensive Care Unit in the Netherlands

Challenging ICU Conditions Lead

to Innovative Solutions

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Intensive Care Unit at Zuyderland Hospital faced immense pressure. All 28 ICU beds were occupied, with additional patients waiting to be admitted. Providing incontinence care to ICU patients is a particularly labor-intensive and sensitive task. In his search for better, more efficient ways to manage incontinence and Incontinence-Associated Dermatitis (IAD), Willem Voragen, a wound specialist in the ICU, came across Swash® Perineum+ that caught his attention. Willem believed this product could assist him and his colleagues in addressing some of their challenges in managing IAD.

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The challenge

One of Willem’s major frustrations was that the IAD product they were using at the time was difficult to apply and time-consuming.

Willem: “We had to wait for 60 to 120 seconds for the cream to dry. 60 seconds might sound like a short time, but when you need to hold an ICU patient, with all the tubes and devices connected to his body, each time you apply it to a certain area, it’s not easy. Neither for the patient nor for the nurses.”

60 seconds might sound like a short time...”
Vlag NL

Willem Voragen
Wound Specialist
ICU Zuyderland, Heerlen

The Methodology

Willem obtained all the necessary approvals to test a new incontinence care product and began testing Swash® Perineum+. From day one, all ICU patients were cleaned with Swash®Perineum+ as an IAD prevention method. He trained all his colleagues on how to monitor the skin condition throughout the study. As a result, patients showed visible improvements in skin condition within just a few days, and nurses reported a faster, easier care routine.

Key figures

35 ICU patients (12 months)

Visible positive effect after 3 to 5 days

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