Prevention

Education of at-risk patients and their families is the most productive way to prevent pressure ulcers. Steps toward prevention include:

• Identifying individuals at high risk for pressure ulcers.
• Ensuring that immobile patients change their position at least every two hours to relieve pressure.
• Using items that can help reduce pressure caused by bedsheets and wheelchairs (e.g., pillows, sheepskin, foam padding, and powder to relieve pressure).
• Making sure patients eat healthy, well-balanced meals.
• Encouraging daily exercise, including exercises for immobile patients.
• Following good skin care, including inspecting the skin every day and keeping skin clean and dry.

Words to the text:

Bedsore, decubitus ulcer – пролежень

To shift – смещать, перемещать

Blood supply – кровоснабжение

Elbow – локоть

Heel – пятка

hip – бедро

ankle – лодыжка

to be bedridden – быть прикованным к постели

inability – неспособность

Malnourishment - истощение

Urinary incontinence – недержание мочи

Irritation- раздражение

Fragile – ломкий, хрупкий

Mental disability – психические заболевания

To seek - искать

To blister – покрываться пузырями

Sore – язва, нарыв, рана, болячка

Tendon - сухожилие

Foam cushions – пенопластовая подушка

Sheepskin - овчина

Friction - трение

Loose - отпавший

To interfere - вмешиваться

Foul odor – неприятный запах

Tenderness - болезненность

Confusion – помешательство, психоз

To encourage - поощрять

Moisture – влага

Ex.1 Translate the word combinations:

To shift weight, a decreased blood supply, without blood supply, to be bedridden as a result of an injury, bedridden patients, irritation of the skin, fragile skin, to cause skin irritation, to seek treatment, the skin blisters, to damage joints and tendons, loose tissue, to encourage daily exercise, areas of moisture, incontinent people, a foul odor from the ulcer, powder to decrease friction