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Aim: Pressure Injury (PI) caused major issue in the hospital care because it caused health care burden in managing them. In this tertiary hospital, majority of the workload is managing PI patients, which occupied 53% to 56% of the workload. Therefore, minimise the health care burden in managing PI patients will be utmost important. MEBO studies showed the ability in reducing the inflammation and promote granulation by regenerating the primitive cells on the wound bed. Li et al. 2017 study showed better result after MEBO application on their PI patients. Therefore, this study is to observe if PI patients who stayed in this region able to have a better healing after the application of MEBO. Method: This is a case series study. Patients with PI will be included various disciplines who admitted to the tertiary hospitals and refer to the Wound Care Team. MEBO was applied after the removal of the necrotic tissues. Results / Discussion: There were 42 PI patients recruited, 45% of them showed improvement in granulating tissues; 36% of their PI seems static; 17% did not show any improvement, and the wound bed were more sloughy. We found that patients who had PI developed in spinal cord injury did not show remarkable healing. This could be due to less frequent immobilize patients, faecal or urine incontinence. Also, as the defect of neurological involvement in muscle contraction, may hindrance the healing process. Conclusion: Application of MEBO did show great improvement in healing PI in most of the cases. However, PI in various co-morbidities in patients and its mechanisms, may require further understanding and study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
