Project aims to develop a system that allows to provide to the People with Special Needs
(PSN) a relief to the level of the sensitive perception of discomfort, assuring greater independence,
welfare, quality of life, prevention of illnesses/wounds, through the development of textile and
polymers applications (cushions, mattresses and mattresses overlays) with functions of monitoring
and control of pressure in the body's areas in contact with the support surfaces.
In this group of PSN will be enclosed the people with serious motor limitations conditioning their
mobility/deambulation, such as bed rest people, patients under effect of sedatives or anaesthesia
during long surgeries (intra and post operative), patients and users in general of wheelchairs. These
people have, for the most part of the cases, a commitment of sensitivity in the body's areas in
contact with the support surfaces, or its motor capacity does not allow them to move regularly of
position autonomously, as it would do a healthy person unconsciously. Then, insufficient
sanguineous irrigation occurs as result of pressure exceeding too long the tissue capillary pressure
depriving tissues of oxygen and essential nutrients, owing to ischemia and hypoxia, which then
causes the pressure ulcers (PU) development.
Monitoring and Control System of Discomfort in Disability, Bed Rest People and Surgical Patients