Nurse Executive Council

The incidence of ulcers this related to the pathology, age, unit of cares, and the neurological state, of which they involve the ortopdicos, the aged ones, those interned in centers of intensive therapy, and the terminals, and any others that they are on drawn out sedative use, in anasarca, with muscular atrophy and reduction of the thickness of the skin, are premade use to the acometimento of these wounds, whose prevalence oscillates around 22,8% in interned patients and about 25% of those interned in I domiciliate. These wounds contribute so that the patient acquires opportunist infections, physical and moral pain, discomfort and damages, beyond leading to it increase the internment time, greaters expenditures with treatment of wounds, taking more time of the attention of the nursing team. Firmino, 2007, studies carried through for the Nurse Executive Council of Alabama concerning the costs related to these wounds, in U.S.A., points about $ 10 billion, annually, being $ 450 with respect to each air mattress, standing out that the prevention of these wounds, is more viable economically for the country. In Brazil the studies still are little what in them it takes not the terms more defined financial parameters. The initial period of training of the ulcer for pressure comes from the related tecidual isquemia to the pressure caused of the ssea proeminence on the fabric soft with the stream bed, thus, ones of the primordial measures is the local decompression, followed of the sistmica stimulation, that is, comfort massage. Reflection about the responsibility on the ulcers for pressure, according to Firmino, 2007: still it has paradigms how much to the cares of the ulcer for pressure, some relate the sprouting of the ulcer as a consequence of the service of bad nursing, since the nursing fits to elaborate prevention programs and to watch over so that it does not have the sprouting of ulcers..