Lesioni da decubito e presidi antidecubito
Record number: 282
Last update: December 2009
Type of document: Thesis
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.
(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.