3. INTRODUCTION
• Pressure ulcers = damage of soft tissue that get
compressed between bony prominence and external
surface for prolonged period of time
• Risk groups: people who cannot avoid long-term
uninterrupted pressure over bony prominences
• Elderly
• Neurologic impairment
• Acute hospitalization
4. COMMON LOCATIONS
• Hip and buttock 70%
• Ischial tuberosity,trochanteric and sacral locations
• Lower extremities 15-25%
• Malleolar, heel, patellar and pretibial locations
• Others
• Nose, chin,forehead,occiput,chest,back, elbow
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5. ETIOLOGY OF PRESSURE SORE
• Impaired mobility
• prolonged uninterrupted pressure
• Muscle and soft tissue atrophy à bony prominences got less protection
• Inability to perceive pain: most important stimuli for repositioning
• Friction and shear forces: eg. Spasticity,moving of patient
• Skin tear à bacterial contamination, water loss, maceration and adherence to clothing
• Quality of skin
• Atrophy, decrease rate of turnover, loss of vascularity,flattening of dermal-epidermal
junction
6. ETIOLOGY OF PRESSURE SORE
• Incontinence or fistula
• moist à maceration (ผิวเป34อย) + bacterial reservoirs
• Bacteria: contamination à delay or prevent wound healing
• Poor nutrition
• Malnutrition, hypoproteinemia, anemia à contribute to tissue
vulnerability and delayed wound healing
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• Complex process
• External forces to the skin (Host-specific factor)
PATHOGENESIS
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Pressure
PATHOGENESIS
Excess of arteriolar pressure > 32 mmHg
Venous capillary closing pressure > 8-12 mmHg
Oxygen and Nutrient to tissue
Tissue hypoxia
Wasted product and free radical
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• Most susceptible tissue to pressure – induced injury
Muscle >> Subcutaneous fat >> Dermis
• Greatest pressure at bony prominence area
cone - shaped distribution
PATHOGENESIS
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• Sitting position : ischial tuberosity (100mmHg)
• Supine position : sacrum (150mmHg) and heel
(40mmHg)
• Prone position : knee and chest (40mmHg)
• Lateral decubitus position : greater trochanter
PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION
INTERIOR
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• Body Level One
• Body LevelTwo
• Body LevelThree
• Body Level Four
• Body Level Five
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INTERIOR
29. GENERAL PRINCIPLES
◦multidisciplinary of wound care teams
◦debridement of necrotic tissue
◦maintain moist wound environment (healing,
relief pressure)
◦Address host issues (nutrition, metabolic,
circulatory status)
◦Promote healing of the wound bed
◦appropriate dressings or wound packing
◦Prevent recurrence
35. POST OPERATIVE CARE
• Continuous care similar to pre-operative care
• Relief pressure
• Psychosocial
• Rehabilitative care
• Drain
• Prevent contamination (feces, urine)
• Prevent recurrence
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37. SPECIFIC TREATMENT - GUIDED
BY STAGE
• Stage 1 :
• covered with transparent film
• protection & prevent from more serious ulcer
38. • Stage 2 ulcers
• Require moist wound environment & little debridement
• avoid wet-to-dry dressings.
• Semi-occlusive (transparent film) or occlusive dressings (hydrocolloids or hydrogels)
•Enzymes normally present in the wound
base—>digest necrotic tissue
•Contraindication:infection
39. • Stage 3 and 4 ulcers
•Debridement of necrotic tissue
•cover with appropriate dressings
•treat infection.
51. SECONDARY FACTORS
• Illness or debilitation
• Fever àincreases metabolic demands
• Predisposing ischemia
• Diaphoresis àskin maceration
• Incontinence àskin irritation and contamination
• Other factors:edema,jaundice, pruritus, and xerosis (dry
skin)
52. INTERVENTIONS
• Scheduled turning and body repositioning
• Appropriate bed positioning
• Protection of vulnerable bony
• Skin care
• Alertness for skin changes
• Use of support surfaces and specialty beds
• Nutritional support - enteral or parenteral nutrition or vitamin therapy
• Maintenance of current levels of activity,mobility,and range of motion