SEATING AND MOBILITY

Pressure Management

Systematic Reviews

  1. Support surfaces for pressure ulcer prevention (Cochrane Collaboration)
  2. Cochrane Wounds Group Reviews (Cochrane Collaboration)

Guidelines

  1. National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel
  2. AHRQ- Search HSTAT for all of the words "pressure ulcer clinical guideline" and select number 3
  3. European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel - Pressure Ulcer Prevention Guidelines
  4. European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel - Pressure Ulcer Treatment Guidelines
  5. The Joanna Briggs Institute for Evidence based Nursing and Midwifery - The Prevention of Pressure Related Tissue Damage
  6. Search PubMed for Pressure Sore Practice Guidelines
  7. Search National Guideline Clearinghouse for Pressure Sore

General Information

  1. Pressure Mapping Wiki
  2. Healthlink USA 'Bedsores Page'

Organizations

  1. National Decubitis Foundation
  2. Austrailian Wound Management Association
  3. American Academy of Wound Management
  4. National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel
  5. World Wide Wounds
  6. Wound Healing Society

Manufacturers Pressure Mapping Systems

  1. Pressure Profile Systems, Inc.
  2. Cleveland Medical Devices
  3. FSA
  4. Novel
  5. Tekscan
  6. Vista Medical
  7. Xsensor

Last updated: Monday, March 08, 2010

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