ProfiCare: an alternating pressure-relieving mattress.
Risk assessment tools should only act as a guide to patient status rather than definitive diagnosis. Emphasis must be placed on not using the Waterlow score in isolation but in conjunction with clinical judgement. We must therefore attempt to minimize opportunities for disagreement over pressure ulcer risk scores through the selection of appropriate support surfaces based on a thorough consideration of costs of pressure ulcers for the patients, institutions and healthcare professionals. This product focus advocates that ProfiCare replacement mattresses are an option as they are designed for use on a hospital bed frame and provide alternating and static patient support surfaces.
Independent Tissue Viability Consultant, Eastbourne, East Sussex.
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D000368:Aged; D001513:Beds / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards / Q000600:supply & distribution; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D004867:Equipment Design; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009103:Multiple Sclerosis / Q000150:complications; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D018579:Patient Selection; D003668:Pressure Ulcer / Q000191:economics / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014945:Wound Healing