A loved, bed in a nursing home or hospital acquired a wound affected families are faced with difficult issues quickly.  Deal in bed sore with questions, to families faced with difficult decisions from a medical and legal point of view are.

Unfortunately, the vast majority of bed sores are (also known as pressure sores, pressure ulcers and decubitus ulcers) the result of the nursing home neglect and improper maintenance.  It is for this reason that medical facilities often hesitate are, provide answers to questions about bed sores.

Common problems are physically challenged patients bed sores that physically disabled patients in Georgia nursing homes.  Disabled patients at risk for the development of bed sores are the reason is because they regularly rely on Concierge to prevent that move bed sores.

In particular physically disabled patients must be every few hours enabled to avoid unrelieved pressure from developing countries.

Patients who are paralyzed, nursing home employees must periodically review the entire body of the patient for the first signs of bed sores such as discoloration of the skin.

According to the national spinal cord injury association if sepsis developed bed sores to advance and the person, there is a 50% mortality.  Also, more than a third of people with spinal cord injury life fight in the United States a wound bed a type.

Nursing home workers care for disabled patients should be aware that the patients are they are concern of increased risk for the development of bed sores.  Accordingly should instructors use some of the following preventive measures:

You use specialized beds and other medical equipment, to the direct pressure on vulnerable areas of the body such as the heels, back, buttocks and head to minimize.Make sure that the proper nutrition and supplements are.The patient get out of bed as often as possible, and you turn a regular Zeitplan.Halten a chart or a protocol to help different rotation positions and the frequency of the movement to pursue.Notify doctors immediately if the condition of the patient is on that bed sores develop.

The law firm of Angell works with families who was injured in assisted living and nursing home facilities. We pursue claims for injury or death as a result of improper or negligent treatment. Our company processes claims involving nursing home staff negligence and nursing home abuse and neglect claims with:

Malnutrition and StarvationDehydrationInfectionsPressure wounds including bed SoresBroken bones and FracturesAssaults and physical AbuseSexual AbuseFalls due to insufficient support or dangerous ConditionsRapid DeclineWrongful death

From our Office of Buckhead in Atlanta, the nursing home abuse lawyers of the law firm of Angell is ready to handle your nursing home case, and we are dedicated to injured customers during the whole u-Bahn Atlanta area, including Athens, Marietta, Roswell, Decatur, College Park, Alpharetta, Duluth, Lawrenceville, Norcross, Chamblee, and Sandy Springs and Buckhead, and Macon, as well as in all Georgia in Fulton County and DeKalb County, Gwinnett County, Cobb County, Clayton and Rockdale counties. Please call us for a free consultation to determine whether you have a case at (770) 217-4954.

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