PRESSURE INJURY IN HOSPITALIZED ELDERLY

Abstract

The study aims to analyze cases of pressure injury in elderly patients admitted to a reference hospital in Recife from 2021 to 2023, describe the number of cases of pressure injury in hospitalized elderly people, and analyze which regions of the body have the highest prevalence of pressure injury. This is a descriptive and retrospective cross-sectional research, with a quantitative approach, where data analysis of elderly people in hospitalization from January 2021 to September 2023 was carried out. Age, gender, region of the body with pressure injury, hospitalization sector, and degree of pressure injury were observed. The study had a sample of 175 participants, of which women constituted the majority, of which 204 pressure lesions were analyzed, which was predominantly located in the sacral region in all sectors analyzed. It is concluded that the sacral region was the place most exposed to continuous and intense pressure, demonstrating failures in patient management recurrently by professionals or a limitation of the team in performing effective decompression due to lack of appropriate strategies for the patient.