ABSTRACT

Pressure sore is one of the most complicated problems of a plastic surgery practise. Addition to long term hospital bed occupation and high wound care expanditures, this prob-lem also is a reason for national social care system. Advanced demographic and etiologic researches are needed to create more useful pressure sore care protocoles. Within this report, we researched and analised the pressure sore patients’ personal medical datas retrospectively between 2000 and 2005.

Age, gender, pressure sore locations, number of pressure sores, hos-pitalization days, number and kinds of operations, the microorganisms that grew in the sore culture, the spesific antibiotics that selected for antibiograms, the blood hemogobine and white blood cell results that calculated in the beginning and at the end of the hospitaliza-tion twice, the serum albumine results that calculated in the beginning and at the end of the hospitalization twice. All datas researched statistically that try to find a relation or correlation between themselves.

With performing all datas we concluded that it is needed to deb-ride the sores as soon as possible, medicate the microorgansims that grew in the sore culture and consultate the medication to an infection disease specialist, transfuse erytrocyte sus-pensions and albumine whenever needed and operate the patient systematically under the supervision of the reconstructive ledder.

Keywords: Pressure sores, wound care, demography