Lesioni da decubito e presidi antidecubito

Record number: 282
Last update: December 2009
Type of document: Thesis
Author: Cornaggia A
Editorial data: Tesi Corso di Perfezionamento "Tecnologie per l'Autonomia". Università Cattolica e Fondazione Don Gnocchi, a.a. 2008-2009
Year of publication: 2009
Abstract:
(text automatically translated from Italian) The lesions from decubitus, defined like alterations of the ***cute or woven the surrounding due to mechanical and extended jam on woven springs situated between the ***prominenza of the bone and the external surface of support, can cause to remarkable uneasiness and suffering. They represent therefore a serious sanitary problem and economic in the comparisons of which, in the Countries more ***evoluti, the sanitary and governmental institutions place particular attention is for the ***morbilità that for the high necessary costs for the treatment. The prevention is a lot important and series of procedures is based on one to put into effect which: _ the the frequent change of position, a hygiene a cutaneous not aggressive for the the skin, a diet alimentary an adequate, a a specific attention to the pathology ***preesistenti and it use of garrison and assistive device specific. The mattresses and pillows antidecubitus, that they are supports actions to redistribute and/or to unload the practiced pressure of contact ***dal the body on a support plan, taking part actively on the determining extrinsic causes a cutaneous lesion, are available on the market in different models and with specific characteristics. In order to carry out an adequate and personalized modality of participation it is necessary therefore a total assesment of the individual that is ***olistica, ***to transdisciplinare and that it includes the level of risk, the comfort, the general state of health of the person and the technical characteristics of the product.
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