Nurses Safety
Published Aug 16, 2011
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emetts
14 Posts
I am an RN student who used to be a specialty bed/mattress vendor. The main thing to note about any LAL mattress is that although pressure is redistributed from the bony prominences, true "offloading" is never accomplished as it is with q2 turning. One of the things I frequently witnessed was the heels responding extremely well to the pressure-redistribution mattress/overlay, but sacral-coccygeal breakdown would invariably occur if a caregiver failed to reposition q.2.h.