Applications wird Read the cases and answer the questions below. Be ready to dis

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Applications wird Read the cases and answer the questions below. Be ready to discuss the cases in the class. In a Nursing Home Stephanie, a 97-year-old female, bedridden patient in a nursing home, developed reddish-blue skin discoloratiorn in the area of her coccyx, and blisters on the skin of her left and right buttocks. According to The National Decubitus Foundation, one in ten patients being treated in the hospital for unrelated illnesses or in long-term care will either develop or is already suffering from a decubitus ulcer. It is common that people suffer from multiple decubitus ulcers at a time. 1. What is another name for decubitus ulcer? 2. Why did Stephanie develop her condition in those particular areas? 3. How this condition can be prevented?

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1- This condition is also known as pressure ulcers or bedsores.

2- It occured particularily on buttocks because of a continuous preesure over her skin by pelvic bones, at such an old age muscles degrades as protein chains starts to break down very fastly and no cushion is left between hard bones and delicate skin. moreover a woman so old find it difficult to move and also she is bed ridden.

3-Prevention is Antibacterial drugs, Anti pain medications, cleaning wound and removal of dead tissue regularily, keeping ulcers in flowing air so that it can dry fastly and person recovers, frequent body movement.

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