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News items on 'Pressure Sores'
(BBC 11/10/2009)
Like most patients, William Hutcheson does not like being in hospital. But after a fall he was left a paraplegic and confined to a wheelchair, which makes him more susceptible to bouts of infected pressure sores. To treat such a problem, most patients would face long stints in hospital so they can get intravenous antibiotics. But the 62-year-old has received the therapy at home thanks to an innovative project run by St Mary's Hospital in London.
(BBC 21/03/2009)
Moving a patient relieves bedsores. It sounds obvious today, but it took the work of an innovative nurse in the 1950s working with a group of elderly patients to realise it. Bedsores, also known as pressure ulcers or decubitus ulcers, are lesions caused by a number of factors including unrelieved pressure. The elderly and infirm are particularly vulnerable, with bony areas of the body particularly prone.
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