Compression confidence with UrgoKTwo
The multicomponent compression bandage that provides comfortable, consistent and continuous compression.
Why compression confidence plays and essential role in healing VLUs
Venous leg ulcers (VLUs) can have a huge impact on a patient's quality of life.
While compression bandaging offers proven efficacy, in order to achieve healing it is essential to ensure concordance over a period of time.
UrgoKTwo is the only multicomponent compression system that combines the benefits of a short-stretch and long-stretch bandage, promoting comfortable, continuous and consistent compression that promotes patient concordance regardless of their activity level.
Support your patients and put them on the path to healing with UrgoKTwo
Give your patients evidence-based compression and support them on their path to healing. Learn more about the 3 Cs - the essential principles for safe and effective compression with UrgoKTwo.
What does compression confidence look like?
Watch the video to understand how UrgoKTwo can give you compression confidence to ensure patients with leg ulcers have a positive healing experience.
Watch Gavin's journey to healing with UrgoKTwo
1. Comfortable compression
Proven comfort that means patients are more able to keep their bandages on day and night
95% of patients find UrgoKTwo comfortable at daytime(2)
92% of patients find UrgoKTwo comfortable at nightime(2)
Kath, patient(1)
What does comfortable compression look like?
Ensuring that patients are able to keep their compression bandages on can be challenging when treating patients with VLUs. UrgoKTwo maintains patient comfort day and night(2) - giving you confidence that your patient will be concordant with compression therapy.
Comfort first
At Urgo Medical, we are committed to supporting a high level of patient comfort to ensure they maintain a path to healing.
The comforting benefits of UrgoKTwo:
- Breathable
- Less bulky
- Easy to wear with shoes
- Ability to remain in place
2. Continuous compression
UrgoKTwo combines the benefits of a short- and long-stretch bandage. This enables our compression system to deliver continuous compression at all activity levels. In fact, the pressure remains the same 24/7 for up to 7 days during different levels of activity.
Continuous compression
- At all activity levels during the day (3)
- Pressure remains the same day and night (4)(6)
3. Consistent compression
Our unique, patented PresSure System indicators guarantee the correct stretch for safe and accurate application to deliver consistent compression for your patients.
Pressure indicators on UrgoKTwo help achieve:
- Accurate pressure and application
- The correct stretch
- The correct overlap
- The right therapeutic level of pressure at the ankle
85% of nurses achieve the correct therapeutic level of pressure at first application with UrgoKTwo(5)
With the 3Cs, UrgoKTwo helps you gain compression confidence to put your patients with venous/mixed leg ulcers on the path to healing.
- Comfortable compression
- Continuous compression
- Consistent compression
What is multicomponent compression therapy
K-TECH (short-stretch bandage)
Provides ~80% of pressure
- High pressure when active
- Massage effect when mobile
K-PRESS (long-stretch bandage)
Provides ~20% of pressure
- Moderate pressure at rest
- Keeps system in place for up to 7 days (6)
Support for every patient with leg ulcers
UrgoKTwo
Delivers continuous therapeutic pressure during all levels of activity in patients with venous/mixed leg ulcers.
40mmHg.
UrgoKTwo Reduced
For mixed aetiology leg ulcers for early initiation of compression or for those intolerant to or unsuitable for high compression.
20mmHg.
Latex free
Both UrgoKTwo and UrgoKTwo reduced are available latex free.
What do guidelines say about multi-component bandages?
“Multicomponent bandages are more effective than single-component bandages”
— EWMA(4)
“Multi-component systems containing an elastic bandage appear to be more effective than those composed mainly of inelastic constituents"
— Cochrane review(7)
References
1. Patient testimonial. Kathy, 2015.
2. Benigni J, et al. J Wound Care.2007;16(9):385-90.
3. Young T, et al. Wounds Int. 2013;4:1-6.
4. European Wound Management Association (EWMA). Understanding compression therapy, 2003. Available at: https://ewma.org/fileadmin/user_upload/EWMA.org/Position_documents_2002-2008/Compression.pdf. Accessed August 2022.
5. Hanna R, et al. Br J Nurs. 2008;17(20):S16-24.
6. Junger M, et al. J Wound Care. 2009; 18(11):474-80.
7. O'Meara S, et al. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2012;11(11):CD000265.
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