Lessons
- Advanced Wound Concepts: Pressure Ulcer & Prevention
- Objectives
- So, what causes pressure injuries?
- What Causes Pressure Ulcers ?
- Friction Vs. Shearing Force
- Friction
- Shearing Force
- Moisture Associated Skin Damage (MASD)
- Peri-Wound: Moisture-Associated Dermatitis
- Fungal Rash Moisture Associated Dermatitis
- Incontinence: Moisture Associated Dermatitis
- Preventing MASD
- How Pressure Ulcers Occur
- Most Common Locations
- Other Causes Pressure ulcers?
- Objects Left Under Patients
- Most Common Object Left Under a Patient
- Who is at risk for development of pressure ulcers?
- Who is at risk for development of pressure injuries?
- who is at risk for development of pressure injuries?
- Name that stage
- Name that stage
- Stage 1
- How to identify a stage 1 pressure injury?
- Other ways to identify a stage 1 pressure injury:
- How do we prevent a stage 1 pressure injury from declining into stage 2?
- Stage 2 partial thickness
- Stage 2
- Stage 3 subcutaneous
- Stage 3
- Stage 4-Muscle/bone/tendon
- Stage 4
- Unstageable
- Stageable & Unstageable Ulcers
- Advanced Concepts of wound care
- Unstageable
- What is a deep tissue ulcer?
- How do you recognize a DTI?
- Arterial wounds
- Types of wounds: arterial insufficiency
- Arterial wounds
- Arterial wounds
- Arterial ischemic disease
- Diabetic Neuropathy
- What Happens when you have diabetic neuropathy and you don’t take the paper out of your new shoes?
- Diabetic neuropathy
- Non-compliance
- Sacral, ischial, & hip wounds
- What caused this condition?
- Preventing heel ulcers?
- Proper offloading
- Offloading?
- What kind of special device can you use to keep heels and ankles off the bed?
- pillows!
- Offload elbows
- Repositioning
- How to properly reposition patients
- How to properly reposition patients?
- Again,what happens if a patient is not repositioned properly & consistently?
- An ounce of prevention? check the mattresses for a pound of cure!
- How can you tell if low air loss mattress or wheelchair cushion is inflated properly?
- Prevention for patients in wheelchairs?
- Preventing skin tears
- How are skin tears prevented?
- How to treat skin tears?
- Can we prevent all pressure ulcers?
- No!
- All eyes on you!
- Compassion and empathy
- Thank you!