What is going on with support surfaces? Join us in this session and find out about the work of the Support Surface Standards Initiative, a committee of the NPUAP. This committee was convened in 2002 with a goal: to standardize support surface terms and definitions and to develop standardized tests that will be used to measure the different support surfaces, determine how this lends to clinical outcomes and to study the effectiveness of support surface therapy.
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Pressure Ulcer Stages (A Review)
The following is taken from the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel’s website. As wound care certified professionals, are we all consistently documenting and defining the pressure ulcers correctly. We have included an excerpt from NPUAP’s site below. The National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel has defined the definition of a pressure ulcer and the stages of…
