Pressure Ulcer Prevention in the Hospital Setting Using Silicone Foam Dressings

  • Truong B
  • Grigson E
  • Patel M
  • et al.
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Abstract

Patient care is of the utmost importance in the hospital setting. Bedrest and immobility during hospitalization, especially in the surgical and intensive care setting, place the patient at high risk for pressure ulcers. It is very important to prevent or notice a pressure ulcer forming due to the significant health care costs involved and patient health associated with them. Various measures are in place to prevent patients from getting pressure ulcers, but a newer material, silicone foam dressings, has been introduced as an alternative solution for the prevention of these ulcers. We review the current literature to examine whether the standard protocol or silicone material is superior to the prevention of pressure ulcer formation. We conclude that silicone foam dressings, when used as prophylactic treatment, seems very promising and may even be superior to the standard care of prevention. However, there were limitations to some studies and further research is needed to confirm the role of silicone foam dressings.

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Truong, B., Grigson, E., Patel, M., & Liu, X. (2016). Pressure Ulcer Prevention in the Hospital Setting Using Silicone Foam Dressings. Cureus. https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.730

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