From hospital to home
Use this chart to help to find the right products for your needs or the Nexcare™ Brand equivalent to the tapes and pads recommended by your doctor or nurse in the hospital.
First aid products for minor ailments
Use the products trusted by your hospital healthcare providers. For nearly 60 years, 3M has been a leading supplier of tapes and dressings to hospitals all over the world. Now we’ve taken these same trusted products and brought them home to consumers as Nexcare™ First Aid Tapes and Nexcare™ Adhesive Pads.
Tapes and wraps
| Nexcare™ Product |
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| Hospital Equivalent |
| Securing post-surgical gauze / dressing |
| Securing devices (splints and catheter tubing) |
| Wrapping sprains / strains / splints |
| Providing compression (edema and swelling) |
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| Nexcare™ Flexible Clear Tape | Nexcare™ Sensitive Skin Tape | Nexcare™ Gentle Paper Tape | Nexcare™ Durable Cloth Tape |
| 3M™ Transpore™ Surgical Tape | 3M™ Kind Removal Silicone Tape | 3M™ Micropore™ Surgical Tape | 3M™ Durapore™ Surgical Tape |
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Adhesive pads
| Nexcare™ Product |
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| Hospital Equivalent |
| Contains a pad (does not stick to wound) |
| For post-surgical incisions |
| Ideal for road rash / abrasions and cuts |
| Ideal for minor burns |
| Ideal for blisters |
| For lightly draining wounds |
| As secondary dressing (over gauze, alginates, hydrogels, etc) |
| For dressing and securing IV catheters (securing in place) |
| To maintain moist wound healing environment (prevents scab formation) |
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| Nexcare™ Tegaderm™ Waterproof Transparent Dressing |
Nexcare™ Tegaderm™ + Pad Waterproof Transparent Dressing |
Nexcare™ Sensitive Skin Adhesive Pads |
Nexcare™ Premium Soft Cloth Adhesive Pads |
Nexcare™ Absolute Waterproof Adhesive Pad |
| 3M™ Tegaderm™ Transparent Film Dressing |
3M™ Tegaderm™ + Pad Film Dressing with Nonadherent Pad |
— | 3M™ Medipore™ + Pad Soft Cloth Adhesive Wound Dressing |
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