This is an excerpt of an article first published on Evidently Cochrane. It is reprinted here with permission.
Health professionals carry out many established interventions as part of caring for their patients. Established practices may be so familiar, and so widely accepted, that they aren’t questioned. They should be. I consider this here in an area of everyday nursing practice, pressure ulcer management, but hope this will be read in the context of other areas of healthcare...
Say hello to PressureGone!
Imagine that I’m writing here to tell you about an amazing new device (let’s call it PressureGone) for treating pressure ulcers or, even better, one that its developers say will eliminate the risk of getting pressure ulcers in the first place. It uses cutting edge technology and you’ve never seen anything like it. Pause a moment before you grab the lovely shiny PressureGone with one hand and bin your patient’s sheepskin with the other. What do you want to know about it?...