For more than three decades now, the Witten-based company Völker AG has been producing better beds and homelike furniture for care homes, hospitals and domestic care.

Völker has become well-known for developing a new generation of healthcare beds and hospital beds for the benefit of occupants and patients, for the benefit of caregivers and service personnel and for the benefit of investors.

Völker has remained true to its vision of providing the best of all functional beds. And following new features that were largely developed and influenced by Völker, we constantly come up with further innovations like the two-part assist rails that were improved once again or the MiS® Micro-stimulation System for pressure sore prevention, for example.

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Benefit: Pressure Sore Prophylaxis.

The Völker MiS® Micro-stimulation System as a conclusive nursing care concept for pressure sore prophylaxis.
More quality could lead to drastic cost reductions in the public health system, said Christel Bienstein, chair of the expert advisory board of the care foundation. As a telling example, Ms Bienstein quotes the treatment costs for pressure sores, the so-called decubitus ulcer. She said it is a disease that could be avoided. But patients are wrongly positioned in the hospital bed or even on the operating table, although sufficient knowledge and aids are available. Analysts assume a pressure sore frequency of about 15% in German hospitals. But already with a secure incidence rate of only 1.3%, therapy costs will result to a total 3.2 billion euro. But we are not the only ones to have this problem. Also in the US, for example, prevalence rates are about the same level. The NPUAP (National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel) even refers to decubitus ulcers as being a "national tragedy", because on the one hand they cause great pain to the persons concerned and place a considerable burden on the public health system, but were avoidable on the other hand. At the same time in Germany, just as in the US, there are partly high-technology bedding facilities available for prophylaxis and therapy. According to expert opinion, the fact that pressure sore rates cannot be favourably influenced in spite of a wide range of therapeutic systems is on the one hand due to their complicated and often also improper handling. On the other hand, however, too few attention - up to no attention at all - is paid to the primary problem of "insufficient movement of patients", even with high-tech beds.

This is exactly the point where Völker leverages on innovation. In cooperation with Thomashilfen and IGAP (Institute for Nursing Care Science), a new pressure reduction system has been developed especially for Völker hospital beds: The Völker MiS® Micro-stimulation System.

The Völker MiS® Micro-stimulation System uses the experiences of basal stimulation, the Bobath concept and kineasthetics. The system's feedback to the patient causes somatic and vestibular stimulation, it conveys information about his body state; little movements cause the patient to mobilize on his own. That way, physiological circulation of the skin, among other things, is ensured so that pressure sores are avoided or the basic requirement for pressure sore healing is created. At the same time, the Völker MiS® Micro-stimulation Systems also fulfils the requirements to promote sensory perception and to reduce pain, which with other systems, e.g. alternating pressure, is not sufficiently allowed for. As a result, Völker MiS® is a nursing care aid that supports and complements basal stimulating care in a sensible way.

IIn combination with the corresponding mattresses and individual adjustment features of the hospital bed's lying surface, this system results in a conclusive nursing care concept for pressure sore prophylaxis.

Links:
http://www.basale-stimulation.de
http://www.igap.de
http://www.thomashilfen.de
http://www.pressure-care.co.uk