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As part of a series on pressure injury prevention in the operating room, Mölnlycke® spoke to a group of specialist nurses and nurse educators. They shared their knowledge and offered tips for nurses and nurse managers to make pressure injury prevention in the OR a success.

As part of a series on pressure injury prevention in the operating room, Mölnlycke® spoke to a group of specialist nurses and nurse educators. They shared their advice on how to get buy-in and run a successful OR pressure injury prevention programme.

Mölnlycke® recently spoke to a doctor in Australia and a professor of nursing in the Czech Republic to learn how clinicians can best go about getting endorsement from hospital executives for pressure injury prevention interventions.

As part of a series on pressure injury prevention in the operating room, Mölnlycke^® spoke to a group of specialist nurses and nurse educators. They shared their knowledge and offered insights into which factors can increase a patient’s risk of pressure injury during surgery.

Without wound cleansing, which includes irrigation or mechanical rinsing of the wound bed, healing may be severely compromised. This vital aspect of wound care is the first step in promoting the natural healing process.

For patients with a pressure injury, it is essential to conduct an ongoing risk assessment using a validated pressure injury risk assessment scale.

Pressure injury severity assessment is based on the International NPIAP/EPUAP/PPPIA pressure injury classification system and requires the clinician to determine the depth of the injury based on visual inspection of the wound.

The development of a pressure injury is a complex interaction between extrinsic factors (environment) and intrinsic factors (patient-related).