Abstract
Purpose: The article describes bedsore prevention measures and the development of a device suitable for bedsore prevention. Method: We had used the triangular cushion in a medical nursing hospital of 226 beds and geriatric health care facility. There was a fault that the triangular vertex portion was settling in about three months. In order to hold the advantage by flexible which does not block blood circulation and to improve a fault, the five-cornered cushion was newly developed and evaluated. Results: The valuation method evaluated instrument durability by 10-kg continuation load and weight bearing experiment, and checked the improvement. The verification of an effect was performed by pressure distribution evaluation. And we confirmed having succeeded in body pressure distribution. The state where 89 persons, 88% of 101 respondents carried out posture conversion by the questionnaire to this hospital worker always use becomes clear. Conclusion: the usefulness of newly developed cushion was checked.
