| 21. | According to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, pressure ulcers are one of the eight preventable iatrogenic illnesses.
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| 22. | While feeding tubes can help people gain weight, they carry risks including bleeding, infection, pressure ulcers, and nausea.
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| 23. | Pressure ulcers are not being bedridden.
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| 24. | Adverse health effects include the formation of pressure ulcers, low back pain, and lumbar immobility and joint stiffness.
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| 25. | _An unusually high number of pressure ulcers, also known as bedsores, of the kind that usually indicate neglect.
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| 26. | Without periodic movement, pressure ulcers develop.
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| 27. | If a pressure ulcer is acquired in the hospital the hospital will no longer receive reimbursement for the person's care.
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| 28. | Systemic antibiotics are not recommended in treating local infection in a pressure ulcer, as it can lead to bacterial resistance.
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| 29. | _A resident was sent to a hospital for treatment of a pressure ulcer ( more commonly known as a bedsore ).
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| 30. | He was the first President of the European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel, and first Recorder of the European Wound Management Association.
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