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3M offers a wide range of high quality casting products, splinting products and accessories which are safe, clean, fast and easy to use.
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Casting Products
We offer a full line of synthetic casting tapes for use in conservative fracture management. For more information about these products including ordering codes and sizes click here.
Visit the NHS Supply Chain e-catalogue to buy on-line now.
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This new and improved fibreglass tape has superseded 3M™ Scotchcast™ Plus Casting Tape. Scotchcast Premium tape has improved features including excellent conformability to body contours and enhanced lamination.
- Provides patients with the benefits of increased comfort, enhanced mobility and a wide choice of cast colours.
- The improved durability, increased lamination and simple application make this one of the most popular synthetic casting tapes today.
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This polyester casting tape has a knitted polyester backing which provides a safe, comfortable cast which is 100% X-ray translucent.
The finished cast is lightweight but durable, and soft with a smooth edge.
The product can be applied with normal surgical or examination gloves and is available in a range of colours and sizes
- Easy to use and moulds perfectly to body contours.
- The knitted polyester backing allows the tape to be stretched during application, and it will retain its new shape thanks to the unique low memory cross-web stretch characteristics.
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This unique semi-rigid casting tape is ideal for removable casts and combi-casting techniques. Soft Cast tape enables treatment of patients with a great number of musculo-skeletal conditions, and can be used in specialist areas such as physiotherapy, podiatry and paediatrics.
The cast is removable with scissors or unwrapping and provides a positive balance between patient comfort and relief of pain, by providing stability and flexibility allowing muscles to function and circulation to be improved.
The finished cast has soft edges and a close fitting second skin feel for the patient. Over 120 clinical publications, articles and testimonials are available to support its use and benefits to the patient and clinician. Evidence is also available to support the potential cost savings to the hospital.
- Provides appropriate levels of functional stabilisation and variable support in the treatment of fractures and soft tissue injuries.
- Reduces the detrimental effects of immobilisation and overall rehabilitation time.
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Splinting Products
We offer a full line of splinting products for use in conservative fracture management. For more information about these products including ordering codes and sizes click here.
Visit the NHS Supply Chain e-catalogue to buy on-line now.
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This splint provides strong, lightweight support in minutes. The splint is easy to apply and fast setting with a unique water repellent felt to create a dry application even after immersion in water.
The splint can be cut to length and the remaining material resealed in the packaging. Scotchcast Conformable Roll Splint can be used for all common orthopaedic splinting.
- The unique, hypoallergenic, water-repellent felt padding dries faster than traditional padding allowing for easy application and time savings.
- Faster application increases patient turnaround, ideal for high volume users such as emergency departments.
- The splint can be customised and cut to the exact length needed for less waste and cost-effective product use.
- Easy-to-use delivery system helps ensure freshness of splinting material and reduced waste.
- Less messy than plaster splints enabling easy application and faster clean up.
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- A simple, clean and fast splint for all applications.
- Eight layers of Scotchcast - with felt on the one side and with foam padding on the other ensures simple, clean handling and a fast application.
- Scotchcast One-Step Splint sets in 3 to 4 minutes and is efficiently weight bearing in 20 minutes.
- The excellent conformability, mouldability and lightweight Scotchcast One-Step splint makes it the ideal choice to meet all your application needs.
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This unique unpadded splint offers the speed and strength of synthetics with the conformability and feel of plaster. The splint is 100% polyester, has a fast setting time of 3-4 minutes and is x-ray translucent.
The application is simple and clean. Primacast splints conform excellently to difficult body contours and are available in convenient individual packets in 11 different sizes to meet both patient and clinician needs.
- The fast curing resin sets in 3-4 minutes and functional strength is reached within 20 minutes versus the 1-2 days required for plaster.
- The unique layered construction provides a low profile, comfortable splint for the patient.
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Casting Accessories
We provide a range of casting accessories designed to be compatible with synthetic tapes and Plaster of Paris. For more information about these products including ordering codes and sizes click here.
Visit the NHS Supply Chain e-catalogue to buy on-line now.
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This padding is made of non-woven polyester which is porous, highly conformable and easy to tear. It is suitable for use with all casting materials and is ideal for close contact casting.
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This fine knit, ribbed polyester stockinette offers optimum coverage and conformability. It is suitable for use in conjunction with padding for Plaster of Paris and synthetic casts and splints.
3M Synthetic Stockinette is ideal for unpadded applications with synthetic semi-rigid materials such as 3M™ Soft Cast Casting Tape. It is smooth, strong and skin friendly and is available in a full range of sizes for example 1” (2.5cm x 22.9m) for thumb and toe applications.
- Can be used with Soft Cast casting tape to enable patients to swim, bathe and shower without having the worry of getting their cast wet.
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A range of webbing, buckles, pin buttons, velcro and Soft Cast scissors used in the manufacture of removable casts, splints and functional braces.
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- Scotchcast Longuette provides three layers of synthetic casting tape providing added strength where needed.
- Each reinforcing strip is pre-cut and layered in a pouch for easy application.
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This elastic latex free adhesive tape offers excellent conformability which makes it ideal for finishing cast edges. It is available in single rolls, 3cm x 2.5m from NHS Supply Chain.
- The elastic adhesive tape consists of 85% cotton and 15% viscose backing material coated with a hypoallergenic adhesive.
- Each role is individually boxed and the conformability of the tape makes it ideal for finishing cast edges.
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A self adhesive foam tape which can be used for the protection of bony prominences.
- Highly conformable, hypoallergenic, multi-directional stretch and waterproof.
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Available in an open canvas style with a range of sizes, 3M Cast Shoes are designed to protect casts and improve the patient’s gait.
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Added Value Services
3M products are supported by an extensive range of added value educational programmes provided by a team of technical sales specialists and a British Orthopaedic Association (BOA) qualified technician.
Casting and Splinting Workshops
- Locally delivered practical and theoretical training covering a broad range of topics on general casting and splinting for Plaster Rooms / A&E / Neurological Physiotherapists / Podiatrists / Orthopaedic Surgeons / Theatres / Orthotists.
- Delivery of educational training packages covering anatomy, trauma and treatment of fractures such as the Scaphoid and 5th Metatarsal. These are delivered in the clinicians workplace.
- The 3M Centre for Clinical Excellence is a state of the art casting room located at 3M Health Care headquarters in Loughborough. The room is available to support clinicians product training and development needs.
- The use of Centres of Excellence within the UK whereby a clinician can speak to / work with fellow peers to share best practice.
British Orthopaedic Association (BOA) Accredited Educational Study Days
These days include a mix of theory and practical work focusing on specific fractures and the treatments available.
3M Academy of Casting Excellence Website
This is a dedicated education resource for heath care professionals who use 3M casting and splinting products. The website has downloadable training guides, clinical research, video demonstrations to support training, clinical practice and continuing professional development:
http://www.3m.co.uk/fracture
Please contact your local representative for further details on any of our immobilisation products or contact us if you require more information on any of our splinting and casting products or value added services.
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Product Catalogue Search
Customer Survey
Thank you to all of those who took part in our recent online survey and congratulations to the winners who each
received a pair of Soft Cast scissors.
3M Academy of Casting Excellence
This is a dedicated educational resource for health care professionals who use 3M casting and splinting products.
Click here to visit the 3M Academy of Casting Excellence.
Where To Buy
- NHS Supply Chain - Purchase through the NHS Supply Chain e-Catalogue
- 3M Direct - Purchase direct from 3M through our dedicated customer service team on 01509 613181
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