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bedsore
(redirected from Decubiti)

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bedsore [′bed‚sȯr]
(medicine)


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26) Inclusion criteria were lower-extremity range of motion consistent with normal gait, absence of unhealed decubiti, no history of osteoporosis or recurrent lower-extremity fractures, no history of lower-extremity peripheral nerve injury, and lack of metabolic or cardiopulmonary instability.
She is a 78-year-old, nonambulatory resident with the following diagnoses: osteoporosis, old stroke with left-side paralysis, incontinent of bowel/bladder, and multiple decubiti on her coccyx.
Abstract: The cost of managing chronic ulcers, both venous leg and decubiti (sacral pressure), was reviewed using 36 randomized, controlled studies with a focus on saline, hydrocolloid, and a human skin construct.
 
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