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Association of Skin Microbiome with the Onset and Recurrence of Pressure Injury in Bedridden Elderly People
Pressure injuries have been identified as one of the main health hazards among bedridden elderly people. Bedridden elderly people often stay in the same position for a long time, because they cannot switch positions; thus, the blood flow in the part of the body that is being compressed between the b...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8400065/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34442680 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9081603 |
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author | Okamoto, Shigefumi Ogai, Kazuhiro Mukai, Kanae Sugama, Junko |
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description | Pressure injuries have been identified as one of the main health hazards among bedridden elderly people. Bedridden elderly people often stay in the same position for a long time, because they cannot switch positions; thus, the blood flow in the part of the body that is being compressed between the bed and their own weight is continuously blocked. As a result, redness and ulcers occur due to lacking oxygen and nutrients in the skin tissues, and these sites are often infected with microorganisms and, thus, become suppurative wounds, a condition commonly determined as pressure injuries. If left untreated, the pressure injury will recur with microbial infections, often resulting in cellulitis, osteomyelitis, and sepsis. The skin microbiome, in which many types of bacteria coexist, is formed on the skin surface. However, it remains unclear what characteristic of the skin microbiome among the bedridden elderly constitutes the development and severity of pressure injuries and the development of post-pressure injury infections. Thus, in this review article, we outlined the changes in the skin microbiome among the bedridden elderly people and their potential involvement in the onset and recurrence of pressure injuries. |
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spelling | pubmed-84000652021-08-29 Association of Skin Microbiome with the Onset and Recurrence of Pressure Injury in Bedridden Elderly People Okamoto, Shigefumi Ogai, Kazuhiro Mukai, Kanae Sugama, Junko Microorganisms Review Pressure injuries have been identified as one of the main health hazards among bedridden elderly people. Bedridden elderly people often stay in the same position for a long time, because they cannot switch positions; thus, the blood flow in the part of the body that is being compressed between the bed and their own weight is continuously blocked. As a result, redness and ulcers occur due to lacking oxygen and nutrients in the skin tissues, and these sites are often infected with microorganisms and, thus, become suppurative wounds, a condition commonly determined as pressure injuries. If left untreated, the pressure injury will recur with microbial infections, often resulting in cellulitis, osteomyelitis, and sepsis. The skin microbiome, in which many types of bacteria coexist, is formed on the skin surface. However, it remains unclear what characteristic of the skin microbiome among the bedridden elderly constitutes the development and severity of pressure injuries and the development of post-pressure injury infections. Thus, in this review article, we outlined the changes in the skin microbiome among the bedridden elderly people and their potential involvement in the onset and recurrence of pressure injuries. MDPI 2021-07-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8400065/ /pubmed/34442680 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9081603 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Okamoto, Shigefumi Ogai, Kazuhiro Mukai, Kanae Sugama, Junko Association of Skin Microbiome with the Onset and Recurrence of Pressure Injury in Bedridden Elderly People |
title | Association of Skin Microbiome with the Onset and Recurrence of Pressure Injury in Bedridden Elderly People |
title_full | Association of Skin Microbiome with the Onset and Recurrence of Pressure Injury in Bedridden Elderly People |
title_fullStr | Association of Skin Microbiome with the Onset and Recurrence of Pressure Injury in Bedridden Elderly People |
title_full_unstemmed | Association of Skin Microbiome with the Onset and Recurrence of Pressure Injury in Bedridden Elderly People |
title_short | Association of Skin Microbiome with the Onset and Recurrence of Pressure Injury in Bedridden Elderly People |
title_sort | association of skin microbiome with the onset and recurrence of pressure injury in bedridden elderly people |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8400065/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34442680 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9081603 |
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