A NURSE serving patients in Ealing is the first in the world to highlight the importance of a skin tone card to spot early warning signs of ...

The ulcer grew. In fact, it seemed as though his leg was caving in as the flesh around it began rotting away. A month before ...

LOS ANGELES, June 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers at UCLA and K Medical recently discovered that a major key to preventing pressure ulcers (a.k.a., bedsores, pressure injuries, or decubitus ...

Pressure ulcers (also known as pressure sores or bed sores) are areas of damage to the skin and the tissue underneath. The NHS website notes that symptoms of a pressure ulcer include: ...

Causes and prevention of pressure sores Pressure sores are wounds that develop when constant pressure or friction on one area of the body damages the skin. Constant pressure on an area of skin stops ...

Pressure ulcers occur in patients who are immobile for a long period or suffer a sustained pressure over an area of skin for a stretch of time. These are difficult to diagnose early and ...

NPWT is a technology that is used widely and is promoted for use on wounds, including pressure ulcers. In NPWT, a machine that exerts carefully controlled suction (negative pressure) is attached to a ...

For pressure ulcer hospitalizations, 33.3% went unreported from 2011 through 2017. Overall, the researchers examined records from 13,179 nursing homes and found 131,000 long-stay residents had to ...

Pressure ulcer: Also called bedsores or decubitus ulcers, a pressure ulcer develops when there’s continued pressure on a certain area of your body, which compresses the blood vessels underneath ...

Pressure ulcers are wounds that develop once a pressure injury causes blood circulation to be cut off from particular areas of the body. Damage to affected tissues can be categorized into four stages.