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Detecting Patient Position Using Bed-Reaction Forces and Monitoring Skin-Bed Interface Forces for Pressure Injury Prevention and Management

2022-03-17 nursing Title + abstract only
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Pressure injuries are largely preventable, yet they affect one in four Canadians across all healthcare settings. A key best practice to prevent and treat pressure injuries is to minimize prolonged tissue deformation by ensuring at-risk individuals are repositioned regularly (typically every 2 hours). However, adherence to repositioning is poor in clinical settings and expected to be even worse in homecare settings. Our team has designed a position detection system for home use that uses machine...

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