PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF BEDSORES

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The most important single factor in the prevention or treatment of bedsores is frequent movement of the patient, so that pressure at any one point is not permitted to exist too long. Munro1stated that the essentials of treatment in cases of spinal cord injury are (1) to move the patient on an hourly time schedule, (2) to prevent the development of any serious exhaustion by such methods as appropriate feeding, transfusions and administration of vitamins, (3) to prevent the occurrence of sepsis and to maintain a constantly dry bed by proper use of a tidal drainage apparatus and (4) to avoid all forms of external artificial splinting or support to the spinal column so long as the patient with the spinal cord injury is bedridden. In certain types of cases, the frequent changes in the patient's position which are necessary to maintain the skin in a healthy state

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