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Treating Syncope: Helping Your Heart
If heart trouble caused your fainting, treatment may improve blood flow, stop syncope, and help prevent further heart problems. Your healthcare provider can explain the benefits and risks of each treatment.
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Tilt Table Testing
Tilt table testing is a simple test that helps the doctor find the cause of your fainting. It checks how changes in body position can affect your blood pressure. Read on to learn more.
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Staging of Bladder Cancer
Once cancer has been diagnosed, the next step is to choose the best way to treat it. To help do this, your healthcare provider checks how deep the cancer has grown and if it has spread. (This is called the cancer stage.)
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How Pressure Injuries Form
Even a healthy person can begin to develop pressure injuries in less than a day if left in the same position. It helps to know where and how pressure injuries develop and what you can do to prevent them.
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Staff Ed: Common Sites for Pressure Injuries
Bony prominences are the areas of bone that are close to the skin's surface. These areas are most susceptible to pressure injuries because they have the least amount of cushioning.
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Reducing a Patient’s Risk for Pressure Injuries
There is no single preventive for pressure injuries. Give priority to pressure relief. Reduce other risks to help maintain a healthy flow of nutrients to the patient’s skin.
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Stages of Pressure Injuries: For Hospital Staff
Evaluating pressure injuries includes describing and documenting them and tracking their progress. Staging systems provide you with a guide in this process. The information in this sheet is an overview of the staging and treatment of pressure injuries.
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Treating Pressure Injuries: Cleaning and Dressing
Learn how to properly clean and dress a pressure injury.
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Staff Ed: Debridement of Pressure Injuries
The goal of treatment for pressure injuries is to create a healing environment. This may require debridement (removing dead tissue) so new cells can form. Various types of debridement are available.
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