The home reduced the percentage of residents with chronic pain from 25 to 1 and those with pressure sores from 11 percent to 5 percent.
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Inventor Max Rogmans combined air and water mattresses to provide paraplegics and the bedridden with better protection against pressure sores, the international jury found.
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And you'd need to constantly shift positions to avoid pressure sores ( although a special bed might avoid that or turn you continuously ).
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The government said the home had failed to respect patients'privacy rights and to care properly for patients suffering from pressure sores, infections and incontinence.
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Patients without a sense of pain or pressure do not notice burns, cuts or bruises, or attend to the pressure sores caused by the disease.
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At his and other centers, patients get help with such common problems as pain control, pressure sores, spasms, bladder function, sexuality and reproduction.
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He refused to allow hospital staff to turn Babic to prevent pressure sores and, initially, to provide painkillers, despite his former girlfriend complaining of pain.
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Some of the physical disabilities that can result from stroke include muscle weakness, numbness, pressure sores, pneumonia, speech loss, vision loss and pain.
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In 1934, the mortality rate in the first two years after injury was over 80 %, mostly due to infections of the urinary tract and pressure sores.
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In addition, malnutrition can lead to vitamin and other deficiencies and to inactivity, which in turn may pre-dispose to other problems, such as pressure sores.
