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What could a One Surface Strategy mean for you?
From risk assessment to ensuring the appropriate intervention, time is a crucial factor in pressure injury prevention.
Part 1 – Quality Care Starts with Meticulous Planning and Decision-Making
Part 1 – Quality care starts with meticulous planning and decision-making Learn how meticulous planning and decision-making help you to combine excellent care for your patients with improved nursing safety and performance.
Part 2 – Stakeholder Interaction: A Key Factor for Resident Wellbeing and a Sound Working Environment
Part 2 – Stakeholder interaction: A key factor for resident wellbeing and a sound working environment Learn how stakeholder interaction paves the way for resident wellbeing and a sound working environment. Get tips on how to create a positive work culture.
Part 5 – Optimal Care Facility Creation: Understanding the Building Process
Part 5 – Optimal care facility creation: understanding the building process Understanding the building process is a key enabler for optimizing your care facility. Discover some key factors for making the process smooth.
Preventing Pressure injuries in Patients with Reduced Mobility
Reduced mobility is a significant risk factor for pressure injury development, international guidelines emphasise the need for regular turning and repositioning of patients to help prevent skin damage¹. While a pressure redistribution mattress ... mattress may enable the repositioning regimen to be individualised, regular postural change is still important but not without risk to the patient or caregiver.
How to prevent pressure injury during patient rehabilitation
Empowering movement is fundamental to any patient rehabilitation programme and is a core principle in the prevention of pressure injury development. With the impact of the current pandemic, the focus on mobilising and rehabilitating patients
Preventing pressure injury in prone position
mitigate this risk, selecting the right support surfaces to support pressure redistribution and targeted pressure offloading is key. Pressure injuries are a preventable medical condition, usually caused by immobility in bedridden patients, developed ... two patients in acute care. Due to the excessive financial, economic and psychological cost of pressure injuries, there is considerable “pressure” on healthcare systems to reduce incidences of the condition.
The ergonomic effects on caregivers when transporting patients in hospital beds
Transporting patients on hospital beds is an ergonomically high risk activity for caregivers. However, the use of powered assisted beds can have a positive impact on their work lives. Read an extract from 'A case for powered bed transport' whitepaper
Rehabilitation through early mobilization after surgery – your guide to helping people recover faster
early mobilization after surgery – your guide to helping people recover faster Using assistive patient handling solutions is an efficient way to help regain or maintain mobility – and we are here to support every step on the way. Our Rehabilitation
How our cover fabrics are designed to support infection control
How our cover fabrics support infection control How our cover fabrics support infection control A mattress cover should support the prevention of cross-contamination – without compromising the performance of the support surface. A mattress cover should support the prevention of cross-contamination – without compromising the performance of the support surface.
5 things to consider when choosing a sit to stand lift for patient transfers
Standing and raising aids, also known as sit-to-stand devices/lifts, are used by caregivers to transfer patients or residents between two seated postures, for example, seated on the edge of the bed to a wheelchair, or wheelchair to commode or shower chair.
Sit to stand study shows Sara Flex 'allows more forward knee movement
An evaluation of 6 different sit to stand devices for use in rehabilitation shows an 'overwhelming preference' for the Sara® Flex knee support during a study in Loughborough University, UK.