Medline is offering a free downloadable, printable set of pdf posters designed to help health-care professionals who work with patients who have pressure injuries or are at risk for developing them.
The posters — called Pressure Injury Staging As Easy as Apple P.I.E. (pressure injury explanation) — use illustrations of apples as metaphors for different pressure injury stages, from stage 1 through stage 4, plus unstageable and deep tissue pressure injuries. The apple illustrations are accompanied by illustrations of pressure injuries affecting cross sections of skin and soft tissues.
The set includes a poster for pressure injury staging for dark skin and a poster for light skin.
The Medline Skin Health web page provides additional resources, including educational articles, a poster on pressure injury contributing factors and an ebook guide to performing in-depth skin assessments.
