Implementation of a Pressure Injury Prevention Protocol for Intensive Care Unit Patients Undergoing Prone Positioning.

Background: Pressure injuries remain the most common hospital-acquired condition, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 are at especially high risk for pressure injuries, including those related to medical devices, because of their lower tissue tolerance, prolonged intubation, and common treatment with prone positioning.

Local Problem: The COVID-19 pandemic brought an increased incidence of hospital-acquired pressure injury.

Utilizing international consensus panel recommendations and a clinical decision tree to guide selection of negative pressure wound therapy.

Introduction: A variety of NPWT products have become commercially available in the last 30 years. Utilizing advanced wound therapies appropriately can improve patient outcomes and decrease health care expenditures. Due to the increasing number of available product options, Hurd and colleagues published 10 Consensus Statements and a clinical decision tree to provide guidance on how and when to use NPWT and when to transition between device types.

A Clinical Support App for routine wound management: reducing practice variation, improving clinician confidence and increasing formulary compliance.

Wounds continue to be of a global concern. Therefore, a more focussed, evidence-based approach to wound assessment and management is required. The WOUND COMPASS™ Clinical Support App (CSA) is designed to support the health care professional with wound assessment and management at the point of care.

Epidermolysis bullosa: management complexities for paediatric patients.

Unlabelled: The genetic skin condition, epidermolysis bullosa (EB) causes the skin to be fragile and blister. As a result, blisters need to be lanced and the skin needs to be dressed with specialist dressings for protection and to promote wound healing.

Method: a prospective case series and product evaluation of the Allevyn™ Gentle Border Lite dressing range was conducted, with four paediatric patients diagnosed with the following types of EB: recessive dystrophic (generalised severe), dominant dystrophic, simplex (generalised severe) and junctional (localised).