Greenwood C, Nelson EA, Nixon J, Vargas-Palacios A, McGinnis E, view paper on the JTV website. This review of randomised control trials concludes that from the low-quality evidence available offloading devices may reduce pressure heel ulceration, but there is insufficient evidence to support the idea that dressings reduce incidence. This indicates that offloading needs to […]

Yanxia Jiao, Chenlu Yuan, Tong Wu, Hongyan Zhang, Yuting Wei, Yuxia Ma, Xiujuan Zhang, Lin Han, view paper on the JTV website. Fracture patients are at high risk of developing a Pressure Injury (PI), especially when an inpatient. Notably, the authors of the paper say that there is a particular risk of PI when it […]

Wynn M, Stephens M, Pradeep S, Kennedy R (2022) Journal of Tissue Viability. 31 (2022) 416–423, view paper on the JTV website. It is now recognised that Deep Tissue Injury (DTI) has a unique clinical appearance. None the less, there is a paucity of information on the specific risk factors associated with DTI as well […]

Bilge Tezcan, Canan Eraydin, Bilgi Gülseven Karabacak. Journal of Tissue Viability. Volume 31, Issue 2, 2022, Pages 213-220, ISSN 0965-206X, view paper on the JTV website. During the height of the COVID pandemic my colleagues and I at the RCSI Skin Wounds and Trauma Research Centre were involved in two projects that involved preventing facial […]

Chicharro-Luna Esther, Gijon-Nogueron Gabriel, Sanchez-Rodriguez Raquel, Martínez-Nova Alfonso. Journal of Tissue Viability. Volume 31, Issue 2, 2022, Pages 315-318, ISSN 0965-206X, view paper on the JTV website. The study written about in this paper examined the role of sock fibres (synthetic vs natural) in preventing blisters in over 200 long distance hikers, all of whom […]

This powerful insight into a daughter’s perspective on palliative care and pressure ulcers written by a TVS member who’s location and identity have been withheld to protect privacy. Mum is in hospital… She has a hospital acquired DTI on her left buttock (left sided weakness after a very dense stroke). She had such beautiful skin […]

“Is a rethink required around the strategies to prevent PUs or are the PUs we are now seeing due to the advancing age, severity of illness and number of co-morbidities patients in our care are experiencing? Read the latest blog from Joanna Swan, Senior lecturer in Tissue Viability, Birmingham City University and TVS Trustee Pressure ulcers […]