BACKGROUND: Pressure ulcers (PUs) are health problems that resulted in human suffering, pain, disfigurement, loss of productive time, and financial burden. Despite the fact that PU is largely preventable (Elliott, McKinley & Fox, 2008) and recent advances in health care, PU rates are ...
Drugs commonly used for symptom relief or healing of peptic ulcers can be divided into 4 main groups: antacids (including bismuth for convenience), anticholinergics, H2-receptor antagonists and liquorice derivatives. For all such drugs the safety margin during normal clinical use must be great, as...
The burden of pressure ulcers will intensify because of a rapidly increasing elderly population. The aim of this study was to examine the effects of a comprehensive, interdisciplinary nutritional protocol on pressure ulcer wound healing, length of hospital stays, and charges for pressure ulcer managem...
Objective To compare the effects of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids(ω-3PUFAs),glutamine(Gln) and arginine(Arg) on early pressure ulcer formation in aged SD rats.Methods Totally,36 male elderly SD rats were randomly divided into a control group of 6,a model group of 6,and 3 experimenta...
Stress must be dealt with because it can cause severe trauma in the lifestyle of the individual. The consequences of stress show itself in a number of different ways. High stress levels can make an individual develop high blood pressure, ulcers, irritability, loss of appetite, and difficulty ...
to move.1,2 However, when such patients show signs of acute tissue inflammation, massage treatment can be counterproductive. As such, recognizing early signs of inflammation is important and increasing numbers of clinicians agree that pressure ulcers are relat...
Biochemical Status of Soft Tissues Subjected to Sustained Pressure The breakdown of soft tissue leading to the development of pressure ulcers has implications in terms of both the overall health of an individual and the overall resources required for health care. Although the cause of the condition ...
Sitting acquired pressure ulcers are places of tissue breakdown that mainly occur under the ischial tuberosities (ITs). Successive durations of pressure relief help the buttock tissue recover from sustained deformation and blood-flow stagnation. A computer-aided simulator chair was developed with two ...
Effect of non-thermal plasma on wounds on non-diabetic rats Figure 1(B)shows the effect of non-thermal atmospheric pressure plasma on ulcers in non-diabetic and diabetic animals. The results show that plasma treatment accelerated the wound healing in non-diabetic rats (P < 0.001). The ...
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