Selection of bedsore reported in Nova Scotia Hospitals

Nova Scotia Hospitals have increased the number of seriously found in patients, but the province says it is only because it is counting them differently.

However, a patient safety advocate says that this is no rest because they should not be at all.

The number of stages 3 and 4 bedsore reported by the Health Department in the most recent quarter compared to the average in the last two years.

Rochelle Curry, Senior Director of Nova Scotia Health said, “This is not especially available for me based on the data available, but of course we are not overall we are not that we want to be as an organization and we believe that we have improvements to do so and they are very committed to work.”

The average was 21, but 70 from October to December 2024, although the province says two of them were actually in the last quarter.

Curry said that he is worried about the latest numbers, but he is not surprised.

The province operates one -day blitz in October to identify stage 3 and 4 bedsource every year, which are the worst and can cause sepsis and death, and last year’s incidents combined with a change in policy on reporting, adding a new range of injury called “unstable”.

Curry said studies have shown that the most unstable wounds are actually in phase 3 or stage 4 that have started recovering, making them more difficult to identify and classify them.

He said that Nova Scotia Health now reports those wounds with stage 3 and 4 lesions and that is why the number occurred with the last decline.

Compared to the same quarter of the previous year, the number increased by 53 percent, and 49 percent of them were unstable, Curry said.

Number of health department is quarterly informed Website of serious reportable events. The province calls them pressure ulcers, but they are bedsore, also known as pressure wounds or pressure injuries.

A stubborn problem for years bedsore

Curry said that if the “unstable” numbers are removed, the worst bedsor obtained in the hospital is only a little above.

But they are A stubborn problem over years.

The Canadian Institute for Health Information does not just track data at the national level on stage 3 and 4 bedsource, but it has a total number and an event rate for all stages of bedsor reported in Canada’s hospitals.

Numbers show that the Nova Scotia incident rate has been more consecutive than any other province in the last five years, and its total number and event rate doubled two years ago.

The institute says that it is not possible to compare one province to another as the patient population varies.

Curry said that patients with Nova Scotia Hospital are usually old and weak and have many chronic health problems that make them more susceptible to bedsore.

Advocates say that Bedsore is unacceptable

He said that it is not clear why the number of provinces increased two years ago, but the authorities are now preparing their efforts regarding the outlook of a province to share the best practices.

“Pressure injuries are something that the organization takes very seriously and something that we are committed to to improve,” he said.

“In fact, the prevention of pressure injury has been identified as one of the top priorities of the organization.”

Patient safety Canada Citterna Kovax Burns said that she believes that the number of hospital-headed bedsor has not been recorded accurately in Canada and the incident is actually more.

The organization advocates patient safety with all types of damage, but the number of bedsor reaching the phase 3 or 4 in the hospital is a significant concern, he said.

“Pressure injuries are one of the hidden types of incidents that begin to crawl, but when they do this and result in skin breakage, it is very difficult to fix.”

‘It is worth stopping’

“As long as they reach stage 3 (or) 4, it means that certainly noted to evaluate the risk or to participate with them from changing or breaking the skin, so it is a dangerous part.”

Kovax Burns stated that people get bedsource, but with care, they should not progress in the worst stages.

“This is never an event. It can be stopped and so I think there is not an acceptable level for me. It should never be.”

Kovax Burns said that the family can help busy health care employees to prevent Bedsore from becoming a problem.

He said that patients need to be tested regularly and are transferred to bed or provided with equipment to prevent the bedsore from forming unhealthy wounds.