Pressure ulcers: how to prevent them
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Pressure ulcers (PU) have been as a health problem throughout time. The reality is that PU are a global health care concern and all the professionals need to be responsible for the prevention and treatment of them. Multiple intervention strategies are needed to avoid the skin breakdown. Managing loads on the skin and associated soft tissue is one of these strategies. Properly chosen support surfaces, adequate periodic pressure redistribution, protection of specially vulnerable bony prominences and a progressive program of joint mobilization are the basis to avoid PU production
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