Volume 55 - Issue 9 - September, 2009
Feature
Empirical Studies
09/15/2009
Abstract
Pressure ulcers are serious health problems. Although a vast amount of literature addresses prevention and treatment strategies, conceptual difficulties persist regarding pressure ulcer definitions, classifications, and distinction...
Abstract
Pressure ulcers are serious health problems. Although a vast amount of literature addresses prevention and treatment strategies, conceptual difficulties persist regarding pressure ulcer definitions, classifications, and distinction...
Abstract
Pressure ulcers are...
09/15/2009
Wound Management & Prevention
Column
Guest Editorial
09/15/2009
The Kennedy Terminal Ulcer (KTU) is a pressure ulcer that some individuals get as they are dying. Not all patients who die with a pressure ulcer die with a KTU; a KTU is in a subset of pressure ulcers that have certain characteristics....
The Kennedy Terminal Ulcer (KTU) is a pressure ulcer that some individuals get as they are dying. Not all patients who die with a pressure ulcer die with a KTU; a KTU is in a subset of pressure ulcers that have certain characteristics....
The Kennedy Terminal Ulcer...
09/15/2009
Wound Management & Prevention
PEARLS FOR PRACTICE
09/15/2009
The National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (NPUAP) published updated definitions of pressure ulcers in February 2007. These definitions were followed in October 1, 2008 by the “Present on Admission” (POA) focus of Centers for Medicare...
The National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (NPUAP) published updated definitions of pressure ulcers in February 2007. These definitions were followed in October 1, 2008 by the “Present on Admission” (POA) focus of Centers for Medicare...
The National Pressure Ulcer...
09/15/2009
Wound Management & Prevention
