BEDSORES
PATIENT #1

PATIENT: 71 year old male.

DIAGNOSIS: Oncology patient. Pain in lower legs, stage three decubitus ulcer on left hip, stage four wound on right hip. Patient unable to roll from left to right side due to extreme disuse atrophy.

HISTORY: Patient has been receiving 440 mg morphine daily and still experiencing acute pain.

TREATMENT: Treatment was originally to retard or maintain the disuse atrophy, increase the range of motion and increase the local circulation.

PROGRESS: Patient received increased analgesia from the first treatment and increasing daily. The first picture was taken on day one (1) of treatment. Picture two and three were taken on day seven (7). Granulation, of the wounds on both side, began on day three. By day sixteen, patient was taken off morphine and began decreasing methadone treatment. Patient began sleeping through the nights on day two (2). He was able to move himself around in his bed by day four (4). The wound on the left hip (picture #1) was totally healed by day eighteen (18). On day 33 the right side still showed minor signs of rumor.

Left Hip 1st Treatment		Right hip-1st Treatment		Left Hip-Day 12

Diabetic Extremity Wounds:

Case Study 1
Case Study 2
Case Study 3
Case Study 4

Gangrene:

Wet Gangrene
Dry Gangrene

Bedsores:

Bedsores 1
Bedsores 2

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