Open Directory - Health: Conditions and Diseases: Skin Disorders: Pressure Ulcers

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Bed Sores - Bed sores can be life-threatening to elderly and disabled patients. Provides a factsheet on how they develop, risk factors and how they can be prevented.
Bedsores Are a Sign of Neglect - Overview including stages, risk factors, complications, treatment and prevention.
Decubitus Ulcers - Study examining how the external loading conditions, including normal and shear forces, affect regional blood flow and trans-cutaneous oxygen levels.
NHS Choices: Pressure Ulcers - Provides information on bed sores with details of symptoms, causes, diagnosis, treatment, complications and prevention.
Preventing and Treating Pressure Ulcers in People with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis - Provides general advice on how to prevent bedsores.
Wikipedia: Bedsore - Encyclopedia article on this condition, its classification, etiology, pathophysiology, epidemiology and treatment.

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Open Directory - Health: Conditions and Diseases: Skin Disorders: Pressure Ulcers

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Pressure ulcers, decubitus ulcers or bedsores are lesions caused by unrelieved pressure and other factors to any part of the body, especially portions over bony or cartilaginous areas such as sacrum, elbows, knees and ankles.

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