Recent Blog Posts

View Post: Why do nursing homes describe pressure sores according to 'stages'?
23 Nov 2009 by goose575@hotmail.com (Jonathan Rosenfeld)  
Nursing homes and hospitals use a four stage scale to describe, monitor and treat pressure sores (also called bed sores, pressure ulcers or decubitus ulcers). By categorizing pressure sores, according to standardized characteristics, ...
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View Post: The Northern Muckraker: Sounds like a delightful place to get ...
17 hours ago by reaver33@gmail.com (Douglas Hester)  
A commode was soiled under the seat, nurses were failing to feed frail elderly people and patients had pressure sores. There was no paediatric nurse for most of the time so children were not getting the best care. ...
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View Post: Musings of a Vast Right-Winger: Hundreds of patients died ...
4 hours ago by fuzzys dad  
Lack of monitoring, lack of help with feeding, lack of dignity, avoidable pressure sores. How many times do the public need to keep hearing about this before the Government is embarrassed enough to do something about it? ...
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View Post: SOCIALIZED MEDICINE
59 minutes ago by JR  
... contaminated equipment, a high rate of pressure sores among the elderly, long waiting times in the accident and emergency department and, worst of all, poor nursing care, with old people deprived of food, attention and dignity. ...
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View Post: PRESSUE ULCERS AND QUALITY OF LIFE
24 Nov 2009 by Dan Frith  
It never ceases to amaze me when family members are told that there husband, wife, mother, father, etc. have a little "pressure sore" on their backsides or legs/feet and that it is being taken care of with a little cream and a bandage. ...
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View Post: Sepsis And Its Relationship To Bedsores (Pressure Sores)
17 Nov 2009 by Thomas Gallivan  
Sepsis can be the result of a bedsore (pressure sore, decubitis ulcer) that is allowed to develop and progress. Sepsis occurs when bacteria enters the bloodstream through the broken skin and spreads throughout the body. ...
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