Pressure injuries can represent serious, preventable decline, but meaningful evaluation requires more than staging the wound. Baseline risk, prevention, progression, and response must be reconstructed together.

In Episode 22 of Pain Points, Michelle Carroll explores what pressure injuries reveal about assessment, prevention, staffing, documentation, and systemic care failures. The discussion considers how clinical decisions, documentation practices, communication failures, and system conditions may affect patient safety, liability, and causation.

This episode examines:

• Baseline skin condition and pressure-injury risk
• Turning, repositioning, offloading, and support surfaces
• Nutrition, hydration, moisture, and mobility
• Wound measurement, staging, and progression
• Treatment orders and specialty consultation
• Distinguishing unavoidable injury from preventable deterioration

Pain Points examines the recurring clinical and operational problems that make medical cases difficult to evaluate. Each episode moves beyond the surface event to explore the records, decisions, missed opportunities, and system failures that may shape liability and causation.

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This podcast is provided for educational and informational purposes only and does not constitute legal or medical advice.