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After last year’s success, we are continuing to sell our seasonal hats for seasonal babies. Our Tarry Caps help to keep your babies warm and comfortable during hospital treatment. The colourful, latex-free, knit fabric helps to reduce heat loss from the baby’s head.

Today we are looking at a popular Posey product called “Foam Trach Ties” which is a one-piece collar that helps to secure tracheotomy tubes. This product is used on patients who require respiratory therapy and is designed to hold a tracheal tube or oxygen cannula in place. They are also designed to help prevent removal, extubation, and decannulation during severe coughing spasms.

In last week’s blog we mentioned our fall management socks that have been colour coded for use in hospitals and care homes to help identify fall risk patients, but that is not where their medical use ends, there are still many benefits to using the socks than just the colour coding.

Repton Medical is your partner for falls prevention and protection as well as providing health care products for the elderly. We realise the importance to find new products to offer you alternative solutions for your fall prevention programmes. This year we have began working with a company from the Netherlands named Daza who specialise in electronic fall sensors and monitors. Daza began developing safety monitoring solutions in the year 2000 and they are now widely used in the European healthcare sector. Encouraged by strong results and the acknowledgement of health care professionals, Daza has now become a market leader in the Netherlands in the field of electronic fall prevention and patient safety. We are privileged to be the only UK based company to introduce their products into the UK healthcare market. The Optiseat and Optiscan fall alarms are two products we believe provides a solution for you, aimed at reducing falls and monitoring the Optiscan detects when a patient gets out of bed and the Optiseat detects the moment the patient rises from their chair.

In last weeks blog we wrote about our latest product, the Anti-Embolism Stockings, and this week we will be continuing the same theme but we will be focusing on the the colour coding of the stockings.

Pressure Ulcers cost the healthcare system in Europe up to 4% of their annual budget. As more and more people are developing pressure ulcers it is creating a huge cost problem for the healthcare system. Pressure ulcers are a localised injury to the skin or underlying tissue that usually develops over a bony prominence as a result of pressure or pressure with shear or frictional forces.

Previously we have talked about how to spot a pressure ulcer before it becomes a serious problem and in this blog we will cover some of the ways that can help prevent pressure ulcers in the first instance.

If you are worried about a family member or yourself having the possibility of getting a pressure ulcer then please read one of our previous blogs on how to prevent a pressure ulcer from happening, either “Bedsores and Pressure Ulcers” or “The Wound Problem”. Both articles will provide helpful hints and information about avoiding pressure ulcers ever happening to you, the ones you love or those under your care.

The NPUAP (National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel) describes a pressure ulcer as a localised injury to the skin and/or underlying tissue that usually develops over a bony prominence as a result of pressure or pressure with shear or friction forces. This means it is not usually an injury you will get in everyday life, it is something that will be happen to you while you are in hospital and remain motionless for long periods of time. Usually the average person will roll or shift their weight when they are in one position for a long time, this is why it is not caused when sleeping at night or sitting down to work, however when you are in a hospital the freedom to move around isn’t always an option the patient has.

There may be times over the course of a patients treatment that they are required to remain motionless in bed for long periods of time, or sit still in a wheelchair for extended periods… this is when Pressure Ulcers can form. Also commonly referred to as “Bedsores” or “Pressure Sores” they can form over short periods of time if a large amount of pressure is applied to an area of skin, or over a long period of time with constant pressure on an area of skin. This can drastically slow down the patients’ recovery from their original treatment, extending their stay in hospital, further increasing the cost of the treatment to the NHS.