A pressure ulcer is defined as an area of localized damage to the skin and underlying tissues caused by pressure, shear, friction, and/or combination of these 2. In Singapore the prevalence of prevalence of pressure ulcers was 18.1%, while the incidence was 8.1% in a tertiary hospital in Singapore in 2002 3.Pressure ulcers place major social, clinical and economic burdens on society. They are the source of numerous complications, which result in long term, frequent, and/or multiple hospital admissions. A new pressure ulcer is estimated to increase a patient’s hospital stay by nearly a factor of five 4.Patients with pressure ulcers generally have significant poorer physical function, are less able to perform self care, and are less mobile 5. More than half (51%) of the long term care-facility patients with pressure ulcers have methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection 6. Furthermore, pressure ulcers are correlated with more than two fold rates of increased mortality 7,8 independent of the source of the ulcer.