1. The Prevention of Pressure Ulcers
... and that placing patients on their side at 90° should be avoided as this places high pressure on the trochanter (Queensland Government, 2009). Stockton, Gebhardt and Clark, in 2009 echoed the sentiments of the Queensland Government (2009), finding that high risk patients should sit for no longer than two hours at a time then be returned to bed (ideally with a pressure redistribution ... has a negative effect on a patient's wellbeing, namely on sleep cycles. Gillespie (et al., 2012) argued that while two hourly repositioning underpinned current state guidelines by the Queensland Governme...
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