Patient in hospital beds are rotated every 2 hours to prevent bedsores. why is this procedure effective?

There are several pressure points in the body, such as the tailbone, the shoulder blades, the back of the head and ears.. etc. When a person lays in one position for a long period of time, pressure is placed on those points, which decreases the blood flow to that area. Less blood flow creates weaker tissue. The weaker the tissue, the more likely it will become sore and open creating a bed sore. By rotating patients every one to two hours, it lessens the pressure to different pressure points, thus decreasing the probability of the skin breaking down.
We also use air mattresses that alternate pressure at the hospital I work at. They work wonderful for preventing sores, and also for helping to heal the sores that a patient may already have.

because the person is not laying in the same position all the time, so the pressure points are moved and thus no bedsores when someone lays in the same position and doesn't move they tend to get bedsores if not properly rotated

Because if you lay in one position to long or sit in one position to long it puts extreme pressure on that area espeically if it is boney as in your coccyx or your hips and cuts off the blood flow to that area. By turning the patient or moving the patient the pressure is relieved and blood can flow normally to that area again.

It takes off pressure and it also keeps body moving to prevent pnuemonia

because if you stay in one place like that sores will appear. so if you turn them it doesn't give the body time to have the bed rubb your body of sores.. the sores get infected and then your in big trouble,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Bed sores are also called pressure sores. They occur in very debilitated patients with circulation problems. The sores come where there is pressure for long enough to do tissue damage due to lack of circulation. Usually, turning the patients and giving a light massage on potential problem areas will prevent the sores. They are much easier to prevent than to heal. In neglected. bedridden people the sores can go to bone in not too much time.

Because if a patient lies on a bony prominence too long it will cause a pressure ulcer or bedsore. As long as they are turned every 2 hours it is unlikely that this will happen. It also helps to pad bony prominences such as the hip, ankles, shoulders, etc. This is the reason heels are elevated off of the bed as well.

bed sores...pressure sores....decubiti...
they all form when the body rests on one spot for a lengthy time...when this happens, the superficial blood vessels that serve the skin are copmpressed and there is NO bloodflow. When there is no bloodflow, the cells die due to anoxia...when the tissue cells die, this is an open spot for the bad guys to get in and cause infection...in no time, youhave a small blanched spot that becomes bigger and biggger, then can become necrotic (gangrene) set in...
nutrition, health, weight, (either too big or two small) all play in this...good luck

this procedure is effective because its help to promote circulation..by turning them you help them from develop sores..and that the safest way yo prevent hazard to patient..

The reason the patient's are turned is because the human body has major pressure points, and if we lay on them too long, the blood flow is stopped and therefore starts to break down the skin and muscles at those pressure points, and they will eventually break down all the way to the bone, and they take months to heal. so it is important that we turn and get off the pressure points.