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positioning. Better lying in bed. Decubitus prophylaxis with hospital beds.
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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 percent 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, based on remarkably positive experiences with "basal stimulation", an innovation sets in which is now presented by Völker AG at the Medica 2003 fair. 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. In 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 prevention. By means of well-aimed somatic and vestibular stimulation, the Völker Micro-stimulation System maintains and promotes the patient's own mobility. In addition, the MiS® Micro-stimulation System steadily conveys information about his body state; little movements stimulate the patient to mobilize on his own. As a result, the Völker MiS® Micro-stimulation System also fulfils the requirements regarding own mobility, to promote sensory perception and to reduce pain, which with other mechanisms, e.g. alternating pressure, is not sufficiently allowed for. Press contact: ProSell! Werbeagentur GmbH Leisewitzstraße 39a 30175 Hannover Mrs Katja Linkert Phone: +49 511 / 28 35 7-32 Fax: +49 511 / 28 35 7-18 E-Mail: katja.linkert@prosell-hannover.de |
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