Assessment and Treatment of Pressure Ulcers

Assessment and Treatment of Pressure Ulcers
University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine
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Product ID: 20548

Abstract: 
This product is part of the GeriaFlix series at the University of Iowa. GeriaFlix are multidisciplinary presentations on topics in clinical geriatrics. Presented in a streaming digital video format with synchronized slides, each presentation lasts approximately 1 hour. In this presentation, Beverly Folkedahl will explain the difference between risk assessment and skin assessment. She will discuss the stages of pressure ulcers and different ways to treat and prevent them.
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Educational objectives: 
This product is part of a series of digitized lectures devoted to topics in clinical geriatrics designed to teach important principles in the management of older persons. By using this lecture series, learners will be able to improve their overall knowledge about managing common geriatric syndromes; understand the unique health care needs of older patients, differences in the management of common clinical conditions, and how physiologic changes associated with aging impact management; develop a working knowledge of important legal and ethical issues associated with end-of-life care; and understand and apply principles of the multi-disciplinary geriatric assessment.

The learning objectives of this particular digitized presentation are:
  1. Identify appropriate interventions for the prevention of pressure ulcers.
  2. Define the difference between a skin and a risk assessment.
  3. Define the pressure ulcer stages according to the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel guidelines.
  4. Identify appropriate interventions for the treatment of pressure ulcers.
Additional information/Special implementation requirements or guidelines: 
GeriaFlix presentations are available online. For more information about the GeriaFlix series, go to http://www.healthcare.uiowa.edu/igec/resources-educators-professionals/p...
Date posted: 
Fri, 08/21/2009
Date last updated: 
Fri, 08/21/2009
CME credits available: 
No
Has this product been peer reviewed?: 
No
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Contact person/corresponding author: 
Linda Seydel (linda-seydel@uiowa.edu)
Authors: 
Beverly Folkedahl
Creative Commons License: 
CC BY-NC-SA
NLM Citation:
Folkedahl, B. Assessment and Treatment of Pressure Ulcers. POGOe - Portal of Geriatric Online Education; 2009 Available from: http://www.pogoe.org/productid/20548
APA Citation:
Folkedahl, B. (2009). Assessment and Treatment of Pressure Ulcers. POGOe - Portal of Geriatric Online Education. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from http://www.pogoe.org/productid/20548