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Deep Tissue Injury: What the Eye Can’t See

Nov 21, 2013 by ArtiModi

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Make your case with medical records about pressure ulcers. Pressure ulcer staging and correct documentation are critical in acute care settings as well as long-term care settings. What the nurse assessed and documented is key to winning your client’s case. [...]

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Pressure Ulcer Staging

Feb 03, 2012 by ArtiModi

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Pressure sore staging challenged Current numerical pressure ulcer classification systems (staging, grading, or categories) are problematic and misleading because they imply that pressure ulcers progress through defined stages (from I to IV). In December 2011, a panel of experts [...]

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Nonhealing Pressure Sores

Jan 31, 2012 by ArtiModi

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It is challenging to heal chronic wounds. Reasons for nonhealing wounds For patient wounds that do not have the ability to heal, the approach is different. These individuals with the inability to heal (nonhealable wound) may be due to [...]

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Skin changes at end of life – preventable?

Jan 27, 2012 by ArtiModi

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Skin changes at the end of life – rise Also known as Kennedy Terminal Ulcers, these are a specific subgroup of pressure ulcers that some individuals develop as they are dying. They are usually shaped like a pear, butterfly, or horseshoe, [...]

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Pressure Sores and Damages

Jan 24, 2012 by ArtiModi

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Pain Scales Use with Pressure Ulcers Pain from pressure sores can sometimes be measured. A variety of pain scales are used to measure that which is subjective. The universally accepted measurement techniques are the utilization of visual analog scales [...]

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Deep Tissue Injury: What the Eye Can’t See

Pressure Ulcer Staging

Nonhealing Pressure Sores

Skin changes at end of life – preventable?

Pressure Sores and Damages

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