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Pressure Sores                                                                                                                                                                                         

Also known as pressure ulcers, bedsores or decubitus ulcers. Areas of damaged skin caused by pressure or friction.

 

For example, the pressure created when sitting in one position compresses the soft tissue and cuts off the blood supply to the delicate blood capillary network which in turn prevents blood from reaching the skin and muscle in the compromised area creating damaged tissue.

 

Pressure sores can range from minor breaks or reddening of the skin to large deep areas of dead tissue. Pressure is greatest near areas of bone such as buttocks, heels and elbows.

 

Pressure ulcers are often slow to heal, because of continued adverse factors such as pressure or poor nutrition. They may spread to deep tissues and also cause localised infection, including osteomyelitis, and systemic infection.

 

The presence of pressure sores is associated with a twofold to fourfold increased risk of death, this is because pressure sores are a marker for underlying disease severity and other co-morbidities. [1]

 

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1.Thomas DR, Goode PS, Tarquine PH, et al; Hospital-acquired pressure ulcers and risk of death. J Am Geriatr Soc. 1996 Dec;44(12):1435-40.

 

Osteomyelitis - is an infection of a bone. Many different types of bacteria can cause osteomyelitis. However, infection with a bacterium called Staph. aureus is the most common cause. Infection with a fungus is a rare cause.

 

Systemic infection - a generic term for infection caused by microorganisms where the causal agent - the microbe - has spread actively or passively in the host's anatomy and is disseminated throughout several organs in different systems of the host.

 

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