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Get Ready For Pressure Ulcer Ravamp

Published on Fri Apr 22, 2016

Say goodbye to term ‘ulcer,’ for one. It will soon be time for your clinicians to learn some new pressure ulcer staging terms and rules. The National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel has replaced the term “pressure ulcer” with “pressure injury,” it notes. “The change in terminology more accurately describes pressure injuries to both intact and ulcerated skin,” NPUAP explains. “In [...]
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