Table 1.
Examples of the main types of silver‐containing wound care formulations
| Silver form | Formulation type | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Finely divided in carbonised cloth | Actisorb® | |
| Coated onto nylon fibre | Silverlon®and SILVERCEL®products | |
| Metallic silver | Coated onto polyester fibre | Atrauman®Ag |
| Nanoparticulate coated foam, film or fibre | Acticoat™and PolyMem®Silver products | |
| Silver salt solution | Silver nitrate (0·5–1% solutions) | No commercial preparations |
| 1% SSD in a cream | Flamazine™ and Silvadene® Tegaderm™Ag (on gauze mesh) | |
| SSD in Vaseline gauze | Urgotul®products | |
| SSD in foam | Allevyn™Ag products | |
| Silver salts incorporated into dressings or creams | Silver sulphate particulate in foam | Mepilex® Ag products |
| Calcium silver phosphate in adhesive on film | Arglaes® | |
| Silver chloride in hydrogel | Silvasorb™products | |
| Silver complex with sodium hydrogen zirconium phosphate in alginate fabric | Maxsorb® Extra Ag, Seasorb® Ag, Algisite™ and Sorbsan® Silver products | |
| Silver salt dressings | Silver sodium carboxymethylcellulose fibre | AQUACEL®Ag |
| Silver sodium collagen/CMC | Promogran Prisma® |
CMC, carboxymethylcellulose; SSD, silver sulfadiazine.