What does PU stand for?

Pressure Ulcer

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The Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses (WOCN) Society recognizes and supports the fact, that a pressure ulcer evaluation represents one aspect of a comprehensive patient assessment which includes, but may not be limited to: history and physical examination, risk factors for pressure ulcer development, comorbidities, individual goals, and expectations.

Pressure ulcer evaluation: best practice for clinicians

2) During her inpatient stay, the patient developed septicaemia from an infected pressure ulcer and subsequently died.

Death highlights poor ulcer care: an elderly patient who died from an ...

A pressure ulcer is a lesion caused by unrelieved pressure that causes damage to underlying tissue and a breakdown in the skin.

Region's hospitals team up to prevent pressure ulcers: goal is to ...

Instituting pressure-relieving surfaces helps to prevent pressure ulcers in the OR and meets one of The Joint Commission's 2008 patient safety goals The National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel updated the staging system of a pressure ulcer--intended for those occurring over bony prominences--and added two categories to create a total of six.

Pressure ulcer staging update

2 "Add the cost of treating pressure ulcers in the home to the cost of re-hospitalization that many pressure ulcer patients receive, and this is definitely an issue to which home health agencies should pay attention," says Sandra Bergquist-Beringer, RN, PhD, CWCN, assistant professor, School of Nursing, University of Kansas who is a researcher on this topic.

A new tool to help predict pressure ulcers

The appendices reprint the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines for pressure ulcer prevention and the British Department of Health's pressure ulcer recommendations from the Essence of Care.

Pressure area care

Tempur-Pedic Medical is honored to sponsor the Seal of Care for skin care and pressure ulcer prevention.

Tempur-Pedic Seal of Care

Nor do pressure ulcers, which are tissue sores caused by pressure or friction.

Enhance recovery in nursing home cases