Pressure injuries: causes and prevention.
- 1 November 1998
- journal article
- review article
- Vol. 59 (11) , 841-4
Abstract
Pressure injuries are caused by peripheral circulatory failure in acutely ill or traumatized patients, which is exacerbated by increased tissue deformability over bony prominences as a result of hypotension, dehydration or poor muscle tone.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: