Georgia nursing home care and bed sores

14:28 Publicado por Mario Galarza

Of a mistress, bed in a nursing home or hospital acquired a wound affected families are quickly confronted with difficult questions. 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 is often hesitate are, provide answers to questions about bed sores.

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

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

Patients who are paralyzed, must verify nursing home staff the entire body of the patient for the first signs of bed sores such as discoloration of the skin regularly.

According to the national spinal cord injury association if bed sores to advance and the person developed sepsis, there is a 50% mortality rate. Also, more than one-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 for increased risk for the development of bed sores. Accordingly should instructors use some of the following preventive measures:

You use special 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 you out of bed as often as possible and turn you to a regular Zeitplan.Halten a chart or a protocol to help different rotation positions and frequency of movement to monitor.Notify doctors immediately if State of patients to that develop bed sores.

The law firm of Angell works with families, the injured was 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 attorneys of the law firm of Angell is abuse that nursing home handle your case and we are dedicated to the injured clients during the metro Atlanta area, including Athens, Marietta, Roswell, Decatur, College Park, Alpharetta, Duluth, Lawrenceville, Norcross, Chamblee, and Sandy Springs, Macon and Buckhead, and quite 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.