Placement
The space-occupying pack supports healing surfaces and helps prevent adhesions between the tympanic membrane graft and the canal skin.
VELNEZ· The Optimal Healing Solution
Designed to simplify what happens after packing
Velnez Ear is a fully fragmentable, biocompatible sponge matrix for packing the external auditory canal following ear surgery. It separates healing surfaces without creating a pack that must later be manually removed.
Natural fragmentation
The dressing fragments naturally in situ, with no manual pack extraction.
Routine review
Residual material is cleared during routine post-operative care or drains naturally from the ear canal.
Fragmentation
Controlled, natural fragmentation in situ.
Healing surfaces
Helps prevent adhesion and reduces fibrosis, while supporting the surrounding tissue.
Clinical action
Haemostatic, reducing clotting time.
Handling
Ready to use with no preparation required.
Considered beyond the operating theatre
The value of a fragmentable canal dressing continues into the post-operative pathway.
For the patient
- Avoids the discomfort associated with removing traditional packing.
- Residual material clears at routine review or drains naturally.
- Gentle, space-occupying support during healing.
For the department
- Simplifies the post-operative pathway by removing the pack-extraction step.
- Avoids clinical time dedicated to traditional pack removal.
- Stores at ambient temperature (4–30°C); available directly from LP Med, with NHS Supply Chain listing to follow.
Sizes
Cylindrical formats for the external canal
Two cylindrical sizes for the external auditory canal.
Cylindrical
20 mm × 5 mm
Cylindrical
REF 142005ER
Cylindrical · narrow
20 mm × 3 mm
Cylindrical
REF 142003ER
For illustration only, not actual size.
REF codes are the manufacturer’s product references. NHS Supply Chain purchase codes will be added when available.
CE 2460 · Store at 4–30°C
Published evidence
One published study, in tympanoplasty and mastoidectomy.
One study has been published, in January 2024. Twenty-one patients were followed through ear surgery at a single centre in Agra, India. It was sponsored by the manufacturer, it carried no comparator group, and its authors name both the sample size and the single-arm design as limitations. It is peer reviewed and open access. It describes how Velnez behaved in the ear. It does not establish how it performs against any other pack.
Single-arm observational study1
Velnez after tympanoplasty and mastoidectomy
Open-label, interventional, single-arm post-marketing surveillance study at a single centre. Twenty-one patients aged 18 to 60, followed over eight visits to sixty days. Velnez was used in two places in the same patients: minced within the middle ear to support the temporalis fascia graft, and as a space-occupying dressing in the external auditory canal.
The authors report that twenty of the twenty-one patients felt no pressure in the ear canal at discharge, and that no patient reported moderate pain at any visit through to day sixty. Haemostasis was achieved within ninety seconds in every patient. No pack required removal or migrated, and no infection was recorded.
The study was sponsored by Datt Mediproducts, the manufacturer. Conflicts of interest are disclosed in full under ICMJE, and the authors declare no financial relationships of their own. Ethics approval from Sarojini Naidu Medical College, Agra, with registration in the Indian national clinical trial registry. Patients taking anticoagulants or antiplatelet drugs, and those with diabetes or hypertension, were excluded, so the study reports nothing about those groups. The paper does not identify which Velnez sizes were used.
Singh AP, Singh S, Malik R. Cureus 2024;16(1):e51732.
Read the paper in full
Product information
Detailed product information
Velnez External Auditory Canal & Outer Ear Dressing: product leaflet
Produced by Velnez, the product leaflet is the definitive clinical reference for this dressing, including detail not summarised on this page. Open it to view or download.
Questions
Common questions
Does Velnez Ear need to be removed?
No. Velnez Ear is 100% fragmentable, so there is no manual pack removal. Residual material is cleared during routine post-operative care or drains naturally from the ear canal.
What happens to the dressing as it degrades?
It fragments naturally in situ. As it degrades, material comes away in a discharge form; residuals are cleaned during routine post-operative care or drain naturally from the ear canal.
What is Velnez Ear used for?
Packing the external auditory canal following ear surgery: a space-occupying pack that separates healing surfaces and prevents adhesions between the tympanic membrane graft and the canal skin.
How is Velnez Ear stored?
At ambient temperature (4–30°C). Velnez Ear is single use, sterile and gamma irradiated.
Find out more
Talk to LP Med about evaluating the Velnez External Auditory Canal & Outer Ear Dressing.
Get in touch to request samples or organise a trial. Velnez is available directly from LP Med, with NHS Supply Chain listing to follow.
Velnez is manufactured by Datt Mediproducts Private Limited. DMP is their mark.