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Pressure Injuries in Medically Complex Children: A Review
Pressure injuries are a challenging problem in the care of medically complex children. Available evidence is limited, and there are theoretical reasons to use caution before extrapolating adult data, including key differences in body composition, common locations of pressure injury, and association...
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5406684/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28387749 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children4040025 |
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| author | Freundlich, Katherine |
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| description | Pressure injuries are a challenging problem in the care of medically complex children. Available evidence is limited, and there are theoretical reasons to use caution before extrapolating adult data, including key differences in body composition, common locations of pressure injury, and association with medical devices. The focus of this article will be to review the definition of a pressure injury and what is known about pathophysiology, prevention, recognition, staging, and treatment of pressure injuries in children with medical complexity. |
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| spelling | pubmed-54066842017-04-27 Pressure Injuries in Medically Complex Children: A Review Freundlich, Katherine Children (Basel) Review Pressure injuries are a challenging problem in the care of medically complex children. Available evidence is limited, and there are theoretical reasons to use caution before extrapolating adult data, including key differences in body composition, common locations of pressure injury, and association with medical devices. The focus of this article will be to review the definition of a pressure injury and what is known about pathophysiology, prevention, recognition, staging, and treatment of pressure injuries in children with medical complexity. MDPI 2017-04-07 /pmc/articles/PMC5406684/ /pubmed/28387749 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children4040025 Text en © 2017 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| spellingShingle | Review Freundlich, Katherine Pressure Injuries in Medically Complex Children: A Review |
| title | Pressure Injuries in Medically Complex Children: A Review |
| title_full | Pressure Injuries in Medically Complex Children: A Review |
| title_fullStr | Pressure Injuries in Medically Complex Children: A Review |
| title_full_unstemmed | Pressure Injuries in Medically Complex Children: A Review |
| title_short | Pressure Injuries in Medically Complex Children: A Review |
| title_sort | pressure injuries in medically complex children: a review |
| topic | Review |
| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5406684/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28387749 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children4040025 |
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