Table 5.1.

Silver-based wound dressings

Product brand name	Manufacturers	Materials/structures	Modes of action
Acticoat	Smith & Nephew	Polyethylene mesh coated with nanocrystalline (< 20 nm diameter) silver and two layers of rayon polyester	Sustainable release silver from nanocrystalline silver
Actisorb Silver 220	Johnson & Johnson	Activated charcoal dressing with bound silver	Adsorbing bacteria onto the charcoal component, where they are killed by silver
Aquacel-Ag hydrofibre	Convatec	70:30 sodium: silver carboxymethylcellulose hydrofibre	Sustainable release of silver ions
Arglaes	Maersk Medical UK Medical	Silver/alginate	Sustainable release of silver ions
Contreet-H Contreet-F	Coloplast	Dense hydrocolloid dressing bound with silver	Sustainable release of silver ions
SilvaSorb	Medline	Silver /hydrogel	Maintain a moist wound-healing environment with the benefits of sustained release antimicrobial silver
Silverlon	Argentum	Polymeric fabric coated with metallic silver	Sustainable release silver icons