Why NHS Trusts are turning to Advanced Pressure Care Solutions
A reported 92% of patients leaving hospitals worldwide are departing with some kind of pressure ulcer caused by skin shearing. For those unfamiliar with this condition, it is easy to explain: take your right hand and rub your left hand at the joint so you can feel the skin rubbing on the bone. This constant rubbing, when performed on the ischial bones, for example, when a patient is sitting up in bed, will deplete the layers of the skin and can cause a pressure sore of the highest grade.
To counter this condition, more NHS Community Services are turning to Advanced Pressure Care Solutions, such as the Treat-Eezi four-layered mattress overlay.
This unique mattress overlay envelopes the contact areas of the body, allowing the polyester layers to glide against each other, thus preventing skin shear while still maintaining upward pressures below capillary blood flow.
Advances in Pressure Mapping can now be pinpointed using the very latest devices, such as the Tekscan, which records mmHg and tells us exactly the peak point pressure readings on patients in different positions using the Treat-Eezi overlay. For results, please visit the Dan Medica South Ltd website.
In a world constantly changing, the need for the NHS to purchase trouble-free products has become a necessity, no service contracts to purchase, no breakdowns to worry about and no electricity costs to deter homecare patients when using air beds. The Treat-Eezi mattress is 100% trouble-free and comes with straightforward instructions, a student nurse can understand when using the product for the first time, ‘ Blue Side Up’. This, plus attaching the four corner straps to the lower mattress, is all that is required.
