skin disorders
Pressure Sores
Prognosis for Pressure Sores
The prognosis for early-stage pressure sores is excellent if people have received timely, appropriate treatment, but healing typically requires weeks. After 6 months of treatment, more than 70% of stage 2 pressure sores, 50% of stage 3 pressure sores, and 30% of stage 4 pressure sores resolve. Pressure sores often develop in people who are receiving inadequate care, have disorders that impair wound healing (such as diabetes or undernutrition), or both. Without continual meticulous care of the sores and treatment of other disorders and complications, long-term prognosis is poor, even if pressure sores have healed. 