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Bed Sore Prevention and Treatment. Why do Bed Sores Form? The Importance of Turning Since interruption to blood circulation can cause a bed sore, maintaining circulation can prevent one. Best Practices for Turning a Patient Although any type of movement or repositioning can be better for a patient than none, the medical industry agrees upon certain best practices for proper turning. These include nutrition, weight, and mobility. Done correctly, this ensures the patient is not placed on any of the large bones; the sacrococcygeal area at the base of the spine by the coccyx and both trochanters located by the hip should be palpable, and if the legs are correctly supported, neither the knees nor malleoli ankle bones should be touching.
Pillows or wedges should be used to maintain the position and ensure the patient is adequately supported Fig 2. Use of electronic bed frames is now common in hospital and community care settings. When sitting patients up using the backrest, it is important to use a slide sheet under the heels, as they are pushed about 15cm along the mattress Fletcher, For patients who tolerate it, the prone position can be used; however, this can only be done for short periods as it exposes new areas of the body to pressure and increases the risk of medical devices becoming trapped.
Nurses should check for uneven distribution of pressure and the location of medical devices once the patient is positioned. Areas requiring specific attention include:. Use of additional pressure redistributing devices — for example, using prophylactic dressings over bony prominences such as the iliac crest, ribs and patella — should be considered.
Staff should use manual-handling aids when moving patients, as dragging a patient along the mattress can cause tissue damage friction and shear.
Types of equipment include:. Slide sheets should be removed where possible and should never be left in situ for more than the time taken to complete the reposition. In some clinical areas — most notably, intensive and critical care — patients cannot be repositioned fully due to issues such as haemodynamic or spinal instability.
In these cases, nurses should perform small but frequent movements to ensure sufficient offloading. Use of programable repositioning devices, which move very slowly, may be better tolerated than manual repositioning; this should be discussed with the multidisciplinary team.
For children and young people at risk, repositioning is recommended at least every 4 hours, and more frequently for those at high risk. Denominator — the number of adults at risk, but not high risk, of developing pressure ulcers who need help to change their position.
Denominator — the number of adults at high risk of developing pressure ulcers who need help to change their position. Denominator — the number of neonates, infants, children and young people at risk or high risk of developing pressure ulcers who need help to change their position. Service providers community care, hospitals and care homes with nursing ensure that training in repositioning techniques and use of repositioning equipment are provided for health and social care practitioners so that they can help to reposition people at risk of pressure ulcers if they are unable to reposition themselves.
Health and social care practitioners ensure that they know how to reposition people safely, and that they help people at risk of developing pressure ulcers with repositioning if they are unable to reposition themselves. Commissioners clinical commissioning groups and local authorities should specify that help to change position is given to people in all settings who are at risk of developing pressure ulcers and are unable to reposition themselves.
People at risk of developing pressure ulcers who are unable to reposition themselves are helped to change their position at a frequency that is appropriate for their level of risk, and according to their wishes and needs. Risk factors include:.
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