This document discusses pressure sores and ulcers, their causes which include ischemia, microcirculation obstruction, shear, compression, distortion, and deformation from pressure. It also mentions metabolic waste, skin atrophy, fragility of blood vessels, loss of connective tissue, and loss of fat and muscle tissue as factors that increase susceptibility to pressure sores by reducing the skin's ability to dissipate pressure and the blood vessels' ability to restore normal blood perfusion. Keywords include pressure sore, ischaemia, microcirculation, occlusion, obstruction, lymphatic, nutrition, oxygen supply, necrosis, and ulceration.
This document discusses pressure sores and ulcers, their causes which include ischemia, microcirculation obstruction, shear, compression, distortion, and deformation from pressure. It also mentions metabolic waste, skin atrophy, fragility of blood vessels, loss of connective tissue, and loss of fat and muscle tissue as factors that increase susceptibility to pressure sores by reducing the skin's ability to dissipate pressure and the blood vessels' ability to restore normal blood perfusion. Keywords include pressure sore, ischaemia, microcirculation, occlusion, obstruction, lymphatic, nutrition, oxygen supply, necrosis, and ulceration.
This document discusses pressure sores and ulcers, their causes which include ischemia, microcirculation obstruction, shear, compression, distortion, and deformation from pressure. It also mentions metabolic waste, skin atrophy, fragility of blood vessels, loss of connective tissue, and loss of fat and muscle tissue as factors that increase susceptibility to pressure sores by reducing the skin's ability to dissipate pressure and the blood vessels' ability to restore normal blood perfusion. Keywords include pressure sore, ischaemia, microcirculation, occlusion, obstruction, lymphatic, nutrition, oxygen supply, necrosis, and ulceration.
Metabolic waste Atrophy of the skin / Thinning ↑ susceptibilitatea leziuni la skin compresii scăzute Fragility of blood vessels ↓ capacității de disipare a Fragilit/ Loss of connective tissue presiunii Loss of fat and muscle tissue Tissue/ Blood vessels adaptation for weight bearing Circulatory activity which aims to restore normal blood perfusion/ Reactive hyperaemia
Category Changes of atrophy of the skin (thinning)