How to Use bedsore in a Sentence

bedsore

noun

• He is propped up on his right side by a hard blue pillow to help heal a painful bedsore.
  — Helen Ubiñas, Philly.com, 18 May 2018
• By April 2017, the bedsore on his right heel required the foot to be amputated.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2021
• At night, the workers here turn her every few hours, to prevent bedsores.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 29 Oct. 2017
• With proper nursing care to avoid bedsores and infections, these patients can live for years.
  — Christof Koch, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2017
• The suit also alleged Balin suffered from bedsores and kidney damage as well.
  — Kathleen Joyce, Fox News, 18 Aug. 2018
• Clinical notes say one bedsore on her buttocks measured more than 1.5 inches deep.
  — IndyStar, 13 Dec. 2020
• The state's 175 hospitals report far more medical errors, but many are for bedsores, which are not a problem in out-patient surgery centers.
  — Mark Alesia, Indianapolis Star, 2 Mar. 2018
• For example, high rates of falls or bedsores may indicate neglect.
  — Donovan Slack, Usa Today, and Andrea Estes, USA TODAY, 25 June 2018
• Patients at the Prescott center reported a lower ratio of falls, bedsores and ulcers than the VA average at nursing homes.
  — Dennis Wagner, azcentral, 17 June 2018
• The elderly woman had a bedsore on her knee that exposed a surgical screw from an old operation, Gates said.
  — George Houde, chicagotribune.com, 14 June 2018
• During that time, staff at the nursing home owned by HHC allowed a bedsore to develop on her right buttock, according to a lawsuit filed by her family.
  — IndyStar, 11 Mar. 2020
• For example, take a common problem like bedsores, which can develop if a resident is confined to bed and staff do not turn the person often enough.
  — Ruth Talbot, ProPublica, 18 July 2023
• There were no bedsores, and his skin condition was excellent, Dr. Sammarco said.
  — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2017
• In that case, one resident's bedsore was so badly infected her leg had to be amputated.
  — Tony Cook, The Indianapolis Star, 1 May 2021
• When nurses tucked pillows under him or subtly shifted him to prevent bedsores, his oxygen levels would crater.
  — Pam Belluck, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2020
• The report, produced by The Leapfrog Group twice a year, grades hospitals on 27 measures of safety, including hand hygiene, intensive care unit physician staffing, bedsores and falls.
  — Lisa Schencker, chicagotribune.com, 23 Apr. 2018
• Hospital personnel noticed numerous bedsores on the woman’s back, arms and legs, Gates said.
  — George Houde, chicagotribune.com, 14 June 2018
• Minor procedures — changing a diaper or moving her to prevent bedsores — cause her lungs to stop working.
  — Dallas News, 24 Jan. 2020
• Surely her loving-kindness would vanish as soon as the iPad went dark, and her demeanor would reveal an eagerness to be rid of this Covid-ic old guy with his bedsore and immobile hip, his catheter and oxygen tubing.
  — Lorrie Moore, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2020
• But even with a private nurse, my father soon developed bedsores, and then suffered the agony of an orchiectomy to remove gangrenous testicles.
  — Lynn Freed, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019
• There were also bedsores on Hector’s body, according to officials.
  — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 10 Sep. 2019
• Even in normal circumstances, a child with Duchenne, for instance, may have to be physically turned over by their caregivers in their beds to prevent further muscle damage or bedsores since they likely can’t do so by themselves.
  — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2020
• Around-the-clock care for Cayla meant administering medications, changing her undergarments, feeding her five times a day through a tube and turning her every two hours to ward off bedsores.
  — OregonLive.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• The frequency of 10 types of in-hospital injuries, including bedsores, hip fractures, blood clots, sepsis and post-surgical wound ruptures, are also assessed.
  — Jordan Rau, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2018
• In a 2014 suit, Mary Mims alleges that her daughter, Letasha, who had mental disabilities, lived at Wentworth for about two years and suffered numerous injuries, including bedsores, bruises, bug bites and gangrenous feet.
  — Sam Roe, chicagotribune.com, 13 June 2018
• The upshot is that Duchesneau’s mother, a Korean immigrant, has become his primary care giver, waking three to four times a night to turn her son in bed to prevent potentially lethal bedsores.
  — Chris Mondics, Philly.com, 19 June 2017
• While held in bed for several weeks, Fasold developed a severe bedsore and now his condition is so complex that the federal prison system doesn’t have an appropriate place to detain him, Willson said.
  — Don Stacom, courant.com, 16 Dec. 2021
• During a February 2016 inspection, state records show the home was cited for not providing proper treatments to prevent new bedsores and not respecting residents’ dignity.
  — Paula McMahon, Sun-Sentinel.com, 16 Sep. 2017
• Regulators and patient advocates blame much of the problem on lack of sufficient staffing to monitor everything from falls to bedsores and infections that can develop into sepsis, putting a patient’s life in danger.
  — Joe Mahr, chicagotribune.com, 4 June 2019
• The most recent national hospital ratings, released in November, were from Leapfrog Group, which grades hospitals on dozens of measures of safety, including hand hygiene, intensive care unit physician staffing, bedsores and falls.
  — Jennifer Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 10 Dec. 2019

Last Updated: 25 Aug 2024