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RESEARCH: Jane Nixon, Gillian Cranny, Cynthia Iglesias, E Andrea Nelson, Kim Hawkins, Angela Phillips, David Torgerson, Su Mason, Nicky Cullum, and on behalf of the PRESSURE Trial Group Randomised, controlled trial of alternating pressure mattresses compared with alternating pressure overlays for the prevention of pressure ulcers: PRESSURE (pressure relieving support surfaces) trial BMJ 2006; 0: bmj.38849.478299.7Cv1 [Abstract]

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Preventing pressure sores in ICU

Olivier Pourrat, Jean-François Cadue, Stéphane Karolewicz, Catherine Tardy, René Robert, and Olivier Pourrat   (24 June 2006)

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Preventing pressure sores in ICU 24 June 2006
Olivier Pourrat, Professor of Interrnal Medicine University of Poitiers, Hôpital Jean Bernard, 3 rue dela Milètrie, BP 577, 86021 POITIERS,France, Jean-François Cadue, Stéphane Karolewicz, Catherine Tardy, René Robert, and Olivier Pourrat Send response to journal: Re: Preventing pressure sores in ICU	To the Editors, Nixon et al reported the results of a multicentre, randomised, controlled trial of two different methods for preventing pressure sores in a very large population of patients aged at least 55 years1. Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients had been excluded from this trial ; however, the incidence of pressure ulcers is very high in those patients2 Jean-François Cadue, Stéphane Karolewicz, Catherine Tardy, René Robert and Olivier Pourrat Intensive Care and Internal Medicine Unit, Faculty of Medicine of Poitiers, Hôpital Jean -Bernard, Poitiers, F References 1 Nixon J, Cranny G, Iglesias C, Nelson EA, Hawkins K, Phillips A et al. Randomised, controlled trial of alternating pressure mattresses compared with alternating pressure overlays for the prevention of pressure ulcers: PRESSURE (pressure relieving support surfaces) trial. BMJ 2006;332:1413-7. 2 Keller BP, Wille J, van Ramshorst B, van der Werken C. Pressure ulcers in intensive care patients : a review of risk and prevention. Intensive Care Med 2002;28:1379-1388. 3 Weststrate JT, Hop WC, Aalbers AJ, Vreeling AW, Bruining HA. The clinical relevance of the Waterlow pressure sore risk scale in the ICU. Intensive Care Med 1998;24:815-20. 4 Cullum N, Mc Innes E, Bell-Syer SE, Legood R. Support surfaces for pressure ulcer prevention. Cochrane Database Syst Rev;2004;CD001735. Competing interests: None declared
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Tom Walley, Programme Director, HTA programme University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX Send response to journal: Re: PRESSURE trial - further information	The PRESSURE (pressure relieving support surfaces) trial was funded by the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) programme, part of the National Institute for Health Research. It is published in full in its monograph series, Volume 10.22. To view or download the full report visit http://www.hta.ac.uk/project.asp?PjtId=1133 Competing interests: None declared