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Wound Care and Pressure Injuries

Practice Guidance Toolkit

Key Nutrition Issues

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Key Nutrition Issues
This toolkit discusses the following key nutrition issues:
  • the prevention of pressure injuries in at-risk individuals
  • nutritional requirements for individuals with existing pressure injuries
  • the effect of nutrition supplementation on the healing of pressure injuries
  • the effect of oral nutrients or mixed nutritional supplements on adults with chronic injuries caused by diabetes or non-diabetic vascular disease
  • the effect of immunonutrient supplementation on outcomes in surgical

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Last Updated: 2018-12-13

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