Medical

This important article was written by Katherine Ward, Healthy.IO Digitising the management of wound care provides accurate and accessible data to nurses and clinicians while also enabling remote assessment of wounds, notes Katherine Ward The COVID-19 pandemic is front and centre of all current healthcare priorities – and rightly so. Yet, we must not, nor…

An interesting article on Wounds, specifically for seniors. Click here to learn more https://www.familyassets.com/wounds

Interrupting residents sleep to prevent pressure ulcers is ineffective and abusive and could be linked to behavioural concerns, the author of a recent study tells Australian Ageing Agenda. The University of New South Wales published in the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry investigated if the repositioning of residents every two hours around the clock was effective in reducing…

Residents in aged care facilities are repositioned every two hours to prevent bedsores, but new Australian research has found this practice is ineffective and could be causing further problems for patients. What’s more is researchers from the UNSW believe this practice could constitute abuse. The new study found that two-hourly repositioning was not only ineffective…

In the UK, around 400,000 individuals develop a new Pressure Ulcer annually. The cost to the NHS is in the range of £2.6 billion and this is rising all the time. It is estimated that one in five hospital inpatients has a Pressure Ulcer (Clark et al,2004)5 – this represents at least 20,000 hospital patients…

Really looking forward to meeting everyone at the Reducing & Managing Pressure Ulcers at End of Life Congress in central London tomorrow, lots of professionals attending