Sarah Duke - Category 4 sacral Pressure ulcer - Sepsis
… Category 4 sacral Pockets of thick tenacious Pressure ulcer slough spread across Wound since 1999. both buttocks. “Never looked so good.” Living with daily dressings for over 18 years: how to move a challenging wound forward avoiding further episodes of sepsis By Sarah Duke - Lead district nurse, Croydon Health Services NHS Trust Introduction Method This case study looks at a gentleman with a category 4 sacral pressure ulcer which Following his discharge home his general condition was more stable. … His past medical history using a Hydro-Responsive Wound Dressing (HRWD®). The primary objective was includes spina bifida, hydrocephalus, type 2 diabetes which is diet controlled, and to debride pockets of thick tenacious slough from his sacral pressure ulcers spread recent admission to hospital for sepsis secondary to osteomyelitis. across both buttocks. … His sacral pressure ulcer was a category 4 with exposed bone.1 In December 2017 On the 27.3.18 there was no further bone exposed and there was healthy he became unwell, which led to the hospital admission with sepsis secondary granulation tissue with a reduction in size. …
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