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ArticleInternational wound journal2019

Preventing pressure injuries in the emergency department: Current evidence and practice considerations.

Nick Santamaria, Sue Creehan, Jacqui Fletcher, Paulo Alves, Amit Gefen

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Article in International wound journal, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Nick SantamariaDepartment of Nursing, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5270-6943
Sue CreehanDepartment of Nursing, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia.
Jacqui FletcherWound Healing, Welsh Wound Innovation Centre, Pontyclun, UK.
Paulo AlvesDepartment of Nursing, Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6348-3316
Amit GefenDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0223-7218

Funding

Molnlycke Health Care AB Unrestricted educational grant
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The emergency department (ED) is at the front line of hospital pressure injury (PI) prevention, yet ED clinicians must balance many competing clinical priorities in the care of seriously ill patients. This paper presents the current biomechanical and clinical evidence and management considerations to assist EDs to continue to develop and implement evidence-based PI prevention protocols for the high-risk emergency/trauma patient. The prevention of hospital-acquired pressure injuries has received significant focus internationally over many years because of the additional burden that these injuries place on the patient, the additional costs and impact to the efficiency of the hospital, and the potential for litigation. The development of a PI is the result of a complex number of biomechanical, physiological, and environmental interactions. Our understanding of the interaction of these factors has improved significantly over the past 10 years. We have demonstrated that large reductions in PI incidence rates can be achieved in critical care and general hospital wards through the application of advanced evidence-based prevention protocols and believe that further improvement can be achieved through the application of these approaches in the ED.

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Practice Guidelines as TopicEmergency Medical ServicesEvidence-Based MedicineHumansIatrogenic DiseasePressure Ulceremergency departmentpressure injurypressure ulcerprevention

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PMID30815991
PMCPMC7948891

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