Pressure Mattresses in pressure ulcer prevention.

Pressure Mattresses in
pressure ulcer prevention
Presenter

Introduction
 Pressure ulcers develop due to localization of body
parts due to sleeping or sitting in one position for long.
 Pressure ulcer development varies from patient to
patient and are determined by factors like age, body
weight and skin health.
 Pressure mattresses are designed to prevent ulcers and
keep the patient healthy.
 The mattress seeks to increase comfort through high
level body support in different body parts.

Level of evidence
 RCTs are the second highest level of evidence
 They are the gold standard of research since they are
effective in testing the efficacy of an intervention
(Burns, Rohrich, & Chung, 2011).
 This is based on well designed randomized control trail
where the participants are randomized into groups.
 This is also based on the strong number of participants
used in the study(Burns, Rohrich, & Chung, 2011).

Beeckman, et
al. (2019)
Camargo, et al.
(2018)
Nixon, et al.
(2019)
McGinnis et al.
(2017)
Evidence
hierarchy
RCT are second
level evidence
(Burns, Rohrich,
& Chung, 2011).
RCT are second
level evidence
(Burns, Rohrich,
& Chung, 2011).
RCT are second
level evidence
(Burns, Rohrich,
& Chung, 2011).
RCT are second
level evidence
(Burns, Rohrich,
& Chung, 2011).
Appropriatenes
s of study
design
Multi-center
randomized
controlled trail
allowed the
researchers to
measure the
clinical
outcomes in
different patient
situations to
increase clinical
outcomes.
The RCT with
intention to treat
was used to
increase clinical
outcomes with
six subscales
used in grouping
the patients and
assessing the
level of ulcers.
Multi-center,
Phase III, open,
prospective,
parallel group,
randomized
controlled trial
was used due to
the high number
of locations
being used in the
study.
Patients were
randomized in
two groups, the
control group
and the
intervention
group allowing
the researcher to
measure the
outcomes of the
study