This article, the sixth in an eight-part series on a new core education curriculum for pressure ulcer prevention and management, discusses incontinence assessment and care Assessing the patient and ...

Clinical Practice Guideline published by the Paralyzed Veterans of America and the Consortium for Spinal Cord Medicine. The University of Alabama at Birmingham Spinal Cord Injury Model System provides ...

Immobile patients are in constant danger of developing pressure ulcers on the skin. Medical researchers have worked together to develop a special sheet that is gentle on the skin and helps to make ...

There has been conflicting advice lately — how should we calculate pressure ulcer prevalence and pressure ulcer incidence rates? Prevalence is defined as a cross-sectional count of the number of cases ...

An improvement project led by a team at Watford General Hospital has resulted in over 2,500 pressure ulcer-free days for patients needing to wear ventilation masks.

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See Correction/Clarification at the end of this article. Three MIT students are pursuing an area of innovation that doesn’t get as much attention in the tech industry: pressure ulcer prevention. When ...