Do Not Do Recommendation
Do not offer subcutaneous or intravenous fluids to treat a pressure ulcer in adults whose hydration status is adequate.
Do Not Do Recommendation Details
- Recommendation:
- Do not offer subcutaneous or intravenous fluids to treat a pressure ulcer in adults whose hydration status is adequate.
- Interventions:
- Subcutaneous or intravenous fluids
Source guidance details
- Guidance:
- Pressure ulcers: NICE guideline (CG179)
- Published date:
- April 2014
- Paragraph number:
- 1.4.8
- Page number:
- 20
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- Do not offer skin massage or rubbing to adults, neonates, infants, children and young people to prevent a pressure ulcer.
- Do not offer nutritional supplements specifically to prevent a pressure ulcer in adults, neonates, infants, children and young people with adequate nutritional status for their developmental stage and clinical condition.
- Do not offer subcutaneous or intravenous fluids specifically to prevent a pressure ulcer in adults, neonates, infants, children and young people with adequate hydration status for their development stage and clinical condition.
- Do not offer nutritional supplements to treat a pressure ulcer in adults whose nutritional intake is adequate.
- Do not use standard-specification foam mattresses for adults with a pressure ulcer.
- Do not routinely offer adults, neonates, infants, children and young people negative pressure wound therapy to treat a pressure ulcer, unless it is necessary to reduce the number of dressing changes (for example, in a wound with a large amount of exudate).
- Do not routinely offer larval (maggot) therapy to adults with a pressure ulcer.
- Do not routinely offer enzymatic debridement to adults with a pressure ulcer.
- Do not offer systemic antibiotics specifically to heal a pressure ulcer in adults
- Do not offer systemic antibiotics to adults based only on positive wound cultures without clinical evidence of infection.
- Do not routinely use topical antiseptics or antimicrobials to treat a pressure ulcer in adults.
- Do not offer gauze dressings to treat a pressure ulcer in adults, neonates, infants, children and young people.
- Do not use electrotherapy to treat a pressure ulcer in neonates, infants, children or young people.
- Do not use hyperbaric oxygen therapy to treat a pressure ulcer in neonates, infants, children or young people.
- Do not use iodine dressings to treat a pressure ulcer in neonates.