Help prevent wounds in bedridden patients

When a person is bedridden due to a serious illness, it is not just physical discomfort – there is a risk of wounds when tissue rots down to the bone. These are bedsores. Even good care is not always enough to prevent their formation. When the body is completely immobile, when there is a deficit weight ("bones protrude") or, on the contrary, overweight – all these are additional risk factors. The soft tissues of the body are pressed down, and their nutrition is disrupted. The skin is deformed and damaged, inflammation occurs, which subsequently develops into soft tissue death. And we are not talking about months or weeks, not even days – often pressure ulcers can appear in as little as two or three hours.

When the patient is immobilised, no one, even the best caregiver, be it a loving relative or a professional nurse, will be able to change the body position every one and a half to two hours (and so on around the clock), for months. It is for such cases that anti-decubitus mattresses have been developed. They are inflatable, redistributing air, constantly changing the pressure on certain parts of the body, even if it is completely still. Yes, just putting the patient on the mattress and doing nothing else is not a panacea. But care is made much easier, and the likelihood of pressure ulcers is reduced significantly.

We are planning to purchase 12 pressure ulcer mattresses to give to families who cannot afford to buy them themselves.