{"id":81487,"date":"2018-11-14T09:40:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T09:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.directhealthcaregroup.com\/stop-pressure-ulcers-day-november-15th-2018\/"},"modified":"2018-11-14T09:40:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T09:40:54","slug":"stop-pressure-ulcers-day-november-15th-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.directhealthcaregroup.com\/int\/stop-pressure-ulcers-day-november-15th-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Pressure Ulcers Day &#8211; November 15th 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Direct Healthcare Group (DHG) are proudly supporting this year&#8217;s Stop Pressure Ulcers Day, which takes place on the 15th November. The Stop Pressure Ulcers Day is co-ordinated by the European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (EPUAP) with the aim of increasing national awareness for pressure injury prevention and to educate the public on this topic.<\/p>\n<p>As part of our efforts to support this important event, DHG will be providing an educational campaign on shear: <strong>Be Clear on SHEAR<\/strong>.<br \/>\nThe current international guidelines (NPUAP, EPUAP, PPPIA 2014) on the prevention of pressure ulcers clearly focuses on the role of shear in the development of tissue damage, however, shear and the management of shear are poorly understood. Direct Healthcare Group&#8217;s information flyers and ward posters detail some of the important factors that should be considered when implementing a clear anti-shearing patient positioning protocol. These include:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>S<\/strong>upport Surface<\/li>\n<li><strong>H<\/strong>ead of bed elevation<\/li>\n<li><strong>E<\/strong>levate the heels<\/li>\n<li><strong>A<\/strong>ir displacement technology<\/li>\n<li><strong>R<\/strong>epositioning<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to receive our educational <strong>Be Clear on SHEAR\u00a0<\/strong>materials, please contact your local commercial manager, or alternatively, email <a href=\"mailto:info@directhealthcaregroup.com\">info@directhealthcaregroup.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DHG will also be supporting a number of local initiatives across the UK to help raise awareness of pressure ulcers.<\/p>\n<p>For further information about Worldwide Stop Pressure Ulcers Day 2018, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epuap.org\/stop-pressure-ulcers\/\">EPUAP\u00a0website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Direct Healthcare Group (DHG) are proudly supporting this year&#8217;s Stop Pressure Ulcers Day, which takes place on the 15th November. 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As &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.directhealthcaregroup.com\/int\/stop-pressure-ulcers-day-november-15th-2018\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1312],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized-int"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Stop Pressure Ulcers Day - November 15th 2018 | DHG<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Direct Healthcare Group (DHG) are proudly supporting this year&#039;s Stop Pressure Ulcers Day, which takes place on the 15th November.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.directhealthcaregroup.com\/int\/stop-pressure-ulcers-day-november-15th-2018\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Stop Pressure Ulcers Day - November 15th 2018 | DHG\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Direct Healthcare Group (DHG) are proudly supporting this year&#039;s Stop Pressure Ulcers Day, which takes place on the 15th November.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.directhealthcaregroup.com\/int\/stop-pressure-ulcers-day-november-15th-2018\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"DHG\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-11-14T09:40:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.directhealthcaregroup.com\/app\/uploads\/Stop-Logo-300x175.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"175\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Rhys Donovan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Rhys Donovan\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.directhealthcaregroup.com\/int\/stop-pressure-ulcers-day-november-15th-2018\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.directhealthcaregroup.com\/int\/stop-pressure-ulcers-day-november-15th-2018\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Rhys Donovan\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.directhealthcaregroup.com\/#\/schema\/person\/4f6a9fc4ef13ae1cfb984f9949b15f11\"},\"headline\":\"Stop Pressure Ulcers Day &#8211; 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