Talk:Pressure ulcer

message: Someone please translate into English understandable to someone with a Master's degree or less!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.227.197.246 (talk) 08:47, 25 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: note

message: The emedicine article "Pressure Ulcers, Surgical Treatment and Principles" by Wilhelmi, listed in external links of this article, mentions that the phrase 'decubitus ulcer' refers only to ulcers gotten from lying supine, so they aren't exactly synonymous with pressure ulcers, as the first sentence suggests.  Anyone care to fix this minor detail? Delldot 04:14, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Never mind, I changed it Delldot 16:25, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Minor technicality

message: The article already contains details of the NPUAP score of pressure sores. There are other scales as well, for example the Norton Scale. Is there a policy on what scales are mentioned when there are more than one different scales? I don't know how much the Norton Scale is used, so don't know if it justifies mentioning. Ged3000 (talk) 13:52, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think there's anything as specific as a policy related to that, but probably the way to do it would be to see what gets mentioned in the most reviews.  I dealt with the same problem at concussion with concussion grading scales, of which there are dozens: it turned out that there were three main ones that kept getting mentioned in reviews, so I used those.  If they're similar scales, maybe we could do a table or something just to summarize. But yeah, I think that your instinct that not every scale is necessarily worth mentioning is a good one; it seems like scale making is everyone's favorite hobby these days! ;-)  delldot on a public computer talk 23:22, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alternate scales relating to pressure sores 

message: Ewwww. That picture of Stage IV- eww. I'm not saying remove it, I'm just saying it's grosser than I expected. 216.170.23.235 (talk) 03:42, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I would like to see a picture of each stage in the section.  The ones we have a very nice, but I think the article could be improved even more by having images of the others as well. 66.177.36.135 (talk) 20:30, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Well, then why dont you lay down in your bed for a few months and see how the bedsores evolve, you can take the pictures and then upload them here (=--Josecarlos1991 (talk) 09:32, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It's concerning to think that each of the images on the page are a considerable failing by the care services and/or the individual carers. These things don't just happen, they happen through neglect. Richard Avery (talk) 10:48, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Better illustrations needed 

message: With regard to the treatment of bedsores I was thinking that the primary treatment should be the removal of the pressure that caused the sore. If action is not taken to prevent this then no amount of 'treatment' will cure the problem. If there are no objections I could fill in the relevant information.   I also think there ought to be a section about prevention of bedsores. There is a multimillion dollar/pound/euro industry around this strategy and it seems odd not to be included. The first action in any illness treatment strategy is to prevent. What thoughts? Richard Avery (talk) 08:35, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prevention is all 

message: I have one of these on my buttock from sitting on the PC too much. Hurts like a bitch and I work in an office so relieving the pressure completely isn't really an option. I'll be sure to update here if it turns into a stage IV and death looks imminent. 81.155.143.202 (talk) 09:39, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stage I from sedentary lifestyle 

message: There is evidence that ultrasound does not have a place in the treatment of pressure sores. , ,
Comments welcome before a decision is made about editing the article. Richard Avery (talk) 13:33, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ultrasound in treatment of pressure sores 

message: I was looking for information about this, but don't want to see an image of a gaping ulcer; just wanted to read about how to prevent these.  Up pops a horrible image.  Can you figure a way to prevent that?  Put a reference with a link, or put it low on the page with a warning, or preferably the necessity to click to see it.  An image that's on the page itself could be an illustration rather than a photo.  I really did not want to have that etched in my memory, reading about it is bad enough.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.58.225.114 (talk) 11:52, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with Unsigned IP. Besides, I don't even recognize which body part is in question. It looks terrible though and gives me the idea of "look, that's the picture with the most gore I could get". Thanks... not. --Stephan Schneider (talk) 21:37, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  I agree with the above. This photo demonstrates little of medical or nursing significance. It is at the very worst end of the pressure sore spectrum of neglect (It is worth remembering that all pressure sores are the result of poor care and/or nursing neglect) and is not typical of the majority of pressure sores. I propose deletion of the image. Richard Avery (talk) 15:26, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Including information about offensive material is part of Wikipedia's encyclopedic mission. Wikipedia is not censored. However, images that can be considered offensive should not be included unless they are treated in an encyclopedic manner. Material that would be considered vulgar or obscene by typical Wikipedia readers should be used if and only if its omission would cause the article to be less informative, relevant, or accurate, and no equally suitable alternative is available. --Wikipedia:ImagesTypical visitors researching "bedsores" do not expect to see a graphic imagery of its most extreme clinical presentation. Its prominent display does not make the article more informative or relevant. A suitable public-domain substitution is available, and I have replaced the image with it. The offending image has been moved to a text-only hyperlink.Merely that we can display an image is not an indicator that we should. -- Anonymous Coward 08:46, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Does disturbing graphic image have to show when not wanted? 

message: I suggest the last item (7) be removed as it has no citations. Numbers 5 and 6 are combined and section 4 be removed unless citations can be found for this highly unusual and probably unethical and 'treatment' Richard Avery (talk) 07:48, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  About the "debridement" paragraph 

message: Is this intentional?  ")  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.250.62.193 (talk) 23:27, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  One hopes not, but it is difficult to see how it could be any other shape in this schematic representation. At least it doesn't have a couple of eyes! Richard Avery (talk) 11:26, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image II now looks lke a smiley...... 

message: This article is full of technical jargon. It would be helpful for nonspecialist readers to understand it if there were a lot more links to other parts of wikipedia. I added a template to encourage someone to improve the wikification.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.66.232.53 (talk) 02:04, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article needs wikifying 

message: QUOTE from the Classification section: "Stage I: Intact skin with non-blanchable redness of a localized area usually over a bony prominence." It would help readers if an expert would add a line "Non-blanchable redness means/is . . ." Does it mean when you press on the red sore it doesn't turn white briefly; it stays red? And if it does turn white, then the red sore is not an early stage pressure ulcer, but something else? 5Q5 (talk) 11:44, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarify "non-blanchable redness" 

message: should a subsection under "treatment" be added to explain the medical/psychological conditions that cause an individual to be bedridden? (and what can be done to alter this...perhaps this ref to start?)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 17:09, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: bedridden/ psychological-social (medical) conditions

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