[mintycbo]

When I had my knee surgery, the hospital I was in had beds that "moved" you every hour or so..
Was annoying as hell, fresh out of surgery... Relaxing, half awake / half zombified on morphine watching TV and next thing I know the bed is moving under me..
Was like "WTF MAN? are all the drugs fucking with me!?!"
And ask the nurse what the hell was going on, I was kinda freaking out about it..

And she was happy to inform me that they had just acquired new beds in the entire hospital that do this to prevent bed sores and whatnot..
And as I no longer needed morphine towards the end of my stay, I found she was not lying to me about the bed.. as it done so perfectly while I was in a normal state of mind.

[hardy-harr]

smuggling drugs in those holes

[LadyCPlum]

Originally Posted by vagabond ↗

He is dead, lividity- also, pic is upside down.

Ahhh yes, I thought some sort of lividity was going on, I just don't think it was mentioned that the person was dead, so I thought I'd point it out.

[MesaGrande]

Originally Posted by mintycbo ↗

And she was happy to inform me that they had just acquired new beds in the entire hospital that do this to prevent bed sores and whatnot..

That's really cool! I hope that those beds will be in much more hospitals in the future

[danielsan]

When I did my UK nurse training in the '90's, pressure sores were, and I believe still am are a sign of bad nursing.

[ChristySD]

Originally Posted by Kelseecat65 ↗

who lets something get that bad.

It does not take long. It is also not always an issue of "letting it get that bad". Quite a few members on here know my medical background and of my previous coma, transplant issues, etc. I was in a first rate hospital in central Florida, my family was there every day, I had my own private nurse and my godfather was the Chief of Medical Staff for one of the corporation's hospitals in which I was staying. With this being said, I was readjusted in bed periodically throughout the day, every day and my skin was treated with barrier creams. This still did not prevent a bedsore from forming over my lower coccyx. I still carry a scar from it and blame NO ONE. I was predisposed, as my immune system is the pits due to a congenital heart defect and, like I mentioned, I was in a friggin coma for a month. It happens.....sometimes it just appears as a small bruise, others become raging episodes of osteomyolitis. Yes, many times it is from neglect, but can also occur no matter what, as I am illustrating.

[LadyCPlum]

Originally Posted by danielsan1971 ↗

When I did my UK nurse training in the '90's, pressure sores were, and I believe still am are a sign of bad nursing.

This might sound ridiculously cynical, but there's always been a part of me that wondered if perhaps some nurses or nursing home workers purposefully practice the whole "benign neglect" thing, probably thinking that the people aren't going to live much longer anyway so why bother turning them over a few times?

[Ewuu]

I think nursing homes would have the worst cases.

[Shakey]

If I get to that point. Pull the plug.

[Harpua]

This brings me back to my ICU days. Some people are so critically sick that turning them causes their blood pressure to tank or their O2 sats to plummet and you can't oxygenate them. Some traumas are so bad they they have external fixators on every limb and you just can't turn them. Or their intracranial pressure shoots up with movement. I've had my arm wrist deep in coccyx wounds. Bad nursing? Try again. Shock and the resulting hypoperfusion with it on top of the listed issues put us behind the 8 ball to begin with. Believe me, there is a guilty feeling when you find that pressure sore. You also get shit from management about it. It's a lose-lose. We do the best we can with what we have to work with.