pressure ulcer

noun

1. another term for bedsore

Example Sentences

Too bad the nursing home operators seem to be unable to summon the same energy and creativity to lower the number of nursing home deaths associated with pressure ulcers, also known as bedsores: The Department of Health and Human Services estimates that “about 60,000 patients die as a direct result of a pressure ulcer each year.”

From Los Angeles Times

Later, Lewis inspected Nelson’s feet, scanning for the pressure ulcer that had started to form on her left heel during her stay in the hospital.

From New York Times

Separately, in what was apparently the first such case to land in North Carolina courts, the Treyburn Rehabilitation Center in Durham declined to send a patient with an infected pressure ulcer to the hospital in April 2020, despite multiple requests to do so from her family, according to the family’s lawsuit.

From Washington Post

She died at Treyburn in April 2020 from complications over what her family alleges was an infection from a golf-ball size pressure ulcer.

From Washington Post

Another resident said staff had not changed the dressing on that person’s stage 4 pressure ulcer for at least two days and investigators said the dressing change had not been done on five occasions in December.

From Washington Times