RE: staging of a pressue area

[Brenda Chance]

Yep.  It truly happened.  Remember circulatory impairment can happen anywhere.  This lady ended up with a huge vascular leak below the aorta which first presented as this.  She ended up having to have the aorta repaired, parts of dead colon removed and the sacral area debrided with a flap.  It was one of the strangest things I have ever seen.  She ultimately died due to infection from all of the surgeries that she had.    Brenda W. Chance, RN, RAC-C MDS Coordinator     CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 4:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: staging of a pressue area   In a message dated 12/31/2003 5:39:04 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We had a resident about 1 year ago that had the same kind of appearance.  It turned out to be not a pressure area, but an area that had impeded circulation and we ended up having to send the resident for surgery.  This resident required extensive surgery that ended up with bowel involvement.  huh?