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a Division of Geriatric Medicine, Saint Louis University Health Sciences Center, Missouri
David R. Thomas, Division of Geriatric Medicine, St. Louis University School of Medicine, 1402 South Grand Blvd., M238, St. Louis, MO 63104 E-mail: thomasdr{at}slu.edu.
Decision Editor: John E. Morley, MB, BCh
Considerable dogma and rhetoric, rather than evidence-based results, have accompanied recommendations for the prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers. Therapy for pressure ulcers is generally empiric, based on anecdotal experience, or borrowed from the treatment of patients with acute wounds. The treatment of pressure ulcers is problematic because of multiple comorbidities of patients, the chronic duration of pressure ulcers, and often by the physician's relative unfamiliarity with treatment options. Issues and dilemmas in the prevention of pressure ulcers center around risk assessment, means of pressure relief, and nutritional support. Similar issues in the treatment of pressure ulcers include implementing pressure relief, nutritional support, local wound care, the best method of debridement, diagnosing infection, the use of topical growth factors, and surgical treatment. The accumulating data for the prevention and management of pressure ulcers permits an outline of clinical strategies.
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