LPPrev: Aplicação Web para cuidadores de idosos com lesão por pressão

Abstract

The increasing aging of the population both in Brazil and globally has led to a significant rise in admissions of elderly individuals to long-term care institutions. This increase has raised concerns regarding the growing incidence of pressure injuries. Further more, it has been observed that the majority of programs for injury prevention lack tools for monitoring patients. The present study deals with the design and implementation of the LPPrev application, which aims to monitor care processes in elderly patients who have pressure ulcers. The application has the following requirements: patient registration, hydration and nutrition monitoring, and personal hygiene tracking. The solution was de veloped using modern web development technologies: the ReactJS library for the user interaction layer, MongoDB for data storage and NodeJS for backend processing layer. For evaluation a test plan was developed and executed internally.