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Risk factors for heel pressure injury in cardiovascular intensive care unit patients
- Source :
- International wound journal. 19(5)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- This study analyzed the risk factors for heel pressure injury in cardiovascular intensive care unit patients with the aim of laying the groundwork for preventive nursing interventions. We conducted a retrospective case-control study of 92 patients who were admitted to the cardiovascular surgical or medical intensive care unit of a university hospital in South Korea between January and December 2017. Of these patients, 31 and 61 were included to the heel pressure injury group and the non-heel pressure injury group, respectively. Data on their demographic, disease-related, and intensive care unit treatment characteristics, as well as the degree of pressure injury, were collected from the hospital's electronic medical records using a standardized form. Cardiac surgery (P
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Heel
medicine.drug_class
medicine.medical_treatment
Dermatology
law.invention
law
Risk Factors
medicine
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
Nursing Interventions Classification
Humans
Retrospective Studies
Pressure Ulcer
Pressure injury
business.industry
Medical record
Intensive care unit
Cardiac surgery
Intensive Care Units
medicine.anatomical_structure
Sedative
Case-Control Studies
Emergency medicine
Surgery
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1742481X
- Volume :
- 19
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International wound journal
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....92d55dbdb1890d7d8d34176f18c1dcc8