Opsite, a synthetic burns dressing.

Opsite, a sterile, occlusive, adherent, polyurethane film has been used in a prospective study involving 150 cases of partial thickness burns. All cases were admitted to the Department of Plastic Surgery, Singapore General Hospital. The patients' ages ranged from infants to the elderly. All sites of the body were tried on Opsite except the head and face and total burns areas applied with opsite varied from less than 5% to 25%. 80% of cases did well, 20% had to have the dressing discontinued for various reasons, the most common being infection. The advantages were in the ease of wound observation, patient comfort, early mobilisation and relative economy. Opsite is a suitable burns dressing for the partial thickness burns especially of the trunk and limbs and is very useful in children. The complications are relatively few and minor.