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Quick Medical Diagnosis & Treatment
Pressure Ulcers
Sections: Key Features, Essentials of Diagnosis, General Considerations, Clinical Findings, Symptoms and Signs, Differential Diagnosis, Diagnosis, Laboratory Tests, Treatment, Medications, Surgery, Therapeutic Procedures, Outcome, Complications, Prevention,
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Excerpt: | |  Examine at-risk patients on admission to hospital and daily thereafter
Pressure ulcers should be described by one of six stages: | | – Stage I: Blanchable hyperemia – Stage II: Extension through epidermis – Stage III: Full thickness skin loss – Stage IV: Full thickness wounds with extension into muscle, bone, or supporting structures – If eschar or slough overlies the wound, the wound is unstageable – In an area of discolored or blistered skin, suspect deep tissue injury |
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