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Pressure injury

Hospital-acquired pressure injury: our seven years of experience

Between June 2014 and June 2021, hospitalised patients' files, from Bayindir Sögütözü Hospital in Ankara, Turkey, were screened retrospectively for...

Nurses' knowledge and practice in preventing pressure injuries in intensive care units

The population of the study consisted of 111 nurses working in level 3 ICU, of which 91 (82%) completed the study. The nurses' characteristics were...

Pressure injury susceptibility related to lifestyle factors in patients with spinal cord injury: a cross-sectional survey

The overall mean age (Table 1) of the participants was 32.63 years (standard deviation (SD)=12.20), whereas the mean age of those with PIs was 36.68...

Pressure ulcer prevention dressing design and biomechanical efficacy

From a medical statistics perspective, effective PUP is known to be substantially more difficult to demonstrate in clinical trials with respect to the...

Changes of tissue images visualised by ultrasonography in the process of pressure ulcer occurrence

This study was a secondary analysis of data collected for the study which investigated risk factors for the development of intraoperatively acquired...