A pressure injury seriously affects quality of life. As clinicians, increasing awareness of pressure injury prevention and education are important to help ensure healthier outcomes for those in our lives and under our care.

Assessment services - Healthcare facilities | Arjo Wide range of assessment services. To help healthcare facilities improve their clinical outcomes and efficiency, and reduce risks for caregivers and patients. In an Arjo MOVE program, we collaborate with you to evaluate how the right equipment and changes in work processes can optimize clinical and operational performance of the care facility.

Pressure Injury Prevention during the pandemic: Prone Positioning Pressure Injury Prevention during the pandemic: Prone Positioning Preventing pressure injury while prone positioning patients. Prone position for prolonged periods of time places the patients at significant risk of complications including pressure injury. To mitigate this risk, selecting the right support surfaces to support pressure redistribution and targeted pressure offloading is key. Pressure injuries are

UnityPoint Health Methodist (UPHM) has always striven to deliver for its patients and staff and sought to do so efficiently, advancing its quality of care in concert with reducing staff injuries and cost.

Like most of the United States, it seems that summer came early and with a vengeance. All states are experiencing excessively high temperatures, and the humidity has been extremely high. In my hometown of Jacksonville, the weather correspondents refer to the “humiditure”, what the air feels like with the high temperature and humidity combined.

Today, we welcome Ali Qureshi, OTR, MOT, Arjo Clinical Consultant and Occupational Therapist, to discuss Arjo’s newest safe patient handling and mobility aid, the AirPal® lateral transfer and repositioning system.

Empowering movement is fundamental to any patient rehabilitation program and is a core principle in the prevention of pressure injury development. With the impact of the current pandemic, the focus on mobilizing and rehabilitating patients earlier and often, throughout the day, has never been higher.

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 earlier and often throughout the day has never been higher.