A custom-contoured cushion for preventing pressure ulcers

Proceedings of the 2009 2nd International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Informatics, BMEI 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Li, Sujiao ^a   Wang, Jue ^a   Zhang, Feng ^a   Zhang, Zhengxiang ^b   Zhang, Yi ^a   Gao, Lin ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Boai Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

Buttocks; Clinical evaluation; Custom contoured cushion; Pressure ulcers; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS INDEX; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; MEAN VALUES; NEW EFFICIENT METHOD; PEAK VALUES; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; PRESSURE SORES; PRESSURE ULCERS; REDUCED PRESSURE; REHABILITATION ENGINEERING; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORDS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DOSIMETRY; PATIENT REHABILITATION;

HIGH PRESSURE ENGINEERING;

EID: 74049092782     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BMEI.2009.5305447     Document Type: Conference Paper

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