Patients often sue healthcare facilities for the development of a pressure injury so it’s a good idea to find out how to prevent them…and they are easy to prevent with the right alternating pressure air mattresses and chair cushions that relieve pressure on all parts of the body, every few minutes, throughout the 24 hours.
Do you know what to look for in an alternating pressure air mattress? Do you know what questions to ask the companies that supply them? Not all mattresses will prevent pressure injuries believe me.
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Pressure injuries, also known as pressure ulcers, bedsores or decubitus ulcers, are appalling wounds that occur when soft tissue is ‘compressed’ between the skeleton and a surface e.g. a mattress or chair cushion, for a period of time. That time is different for every patient but tissue can begin to die in just a few minutes of unrelieved pressure.
The unrelieved pressure can destroy muscle, fat, bone and skin. Pressure injuries are extremely painful wounds that become infected and may result in limb amputation and / or death.
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