Karen Kennedy, a registered nurse, published a retrospective case review of 95 pressure injuries that occurred in a long-term facility where 51 of the patients died. Locations of the ulcers ...

Karen Kennedy, a registered nurse, published a retrospective case review of 95 pressure injuries that occurred in a long-term facility where 51 of the patients died. Locations of the ulcers ...

As wound care experts, explain a KTU is an ulcer that some people develop as they are dying. KTU's primarily start off as a blister or a stage II ulcer and suddenly, in some cases within a matter ...

Karen Kennedy, a registered nurse, published a retrospective case review of 95 pressure injuries that occurred in a long-term facility where 51 of the patients died. Locations of the ulcers ...

Karen Kennedy, a registered nurse, published a retrospective case review of 95 pressure injuries that occurred in a long-term facility where 51 of the patients died. Locations of the ulcers ...

Pressure ulcers and skin failure at the end of life are certainly linked, but they are also two different clinical manifestations. Pressure ulceration is defined as a localised injury to the skin ...

Only about 50 percent of dying patients in this country (and only about 30 percent in New York) receive this gold standard of end-of-life care. Life is precious, but it will end.