Click below for articles with detailed information regarding pressure ulcers and how a low air-loss mattress can assist those living with this condition.
This diagram is an example of an alternating mattress and shows where Pressure Ulcers most often develop.
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Bed sores or pressure sores are significant and growing problems for patients in confinement to bed or a chair, being unable to move, losing of bowel or bladder control, having poor nutrition, or with lowered mental awareness.
Anyone who must stay in a bed, chair, or wheelchair because of illness or injury can get bed sore.
A bed sore is an injury usually caused by unrelieved pressure that damages the skin and underlying tissue by squeezing tiny blood vessels which supply the skin with nutrients and oxygen.
Bed sore leads to pain, a long stay in the hospital or nursing home and slower recovery from health problems - therefore increase the cost and decrease the quality of care.
Once developed, bed sore healing can be challenging in many cases.
Alternating pressure and low air loss technologies are known to be most effective in healing and preventing these wounds and make care giving tasks significantly easier.
Today, many mattresses with alternating pressure or low air loss or both functions are available on the market to fit a variety budgets and applications.
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