{"id":36688,"date":"2011-02-03T18:04:35","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T10:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.columbiaasia.com\/malaysia\/?post_type=health-article&#038;p=36688"},"modified":"2025-05-20T15:06:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T07:06:57","slug":"what-everyone-should-know-about-pressure-sores","status":"publish","type":"health-article","link":"https:\/\/www.columbiaasia.com\/malaysia\/health-articles\/what-everyone-should-know-about-pressure-sores\/","title":{"rendered":"What everyone should know about Pressure Sores"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"36688\" class=\"elementor elementor-36688\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3727b0d e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"3727b0d\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e68753e elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"e68753e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" id=\"subtopic01\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! 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At times, surgical intervention and the use of antibiotics may be required as a life saving measure.<br \/><br \/>Always remember, pressure sore can be life threatening and prevention is less complicated than treatment.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Risk factors for pressure sores:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22784,"template":"","topic":[115,95],"language":[137],"class_list":["post-36688","health-article","type-health-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","topic-extended-care","topic-general","language-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What everyone should know about Pressure Sores - Columbia Asia Hospital I Private Hospital in Malaysia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.columbiaasia.com\/malaysia\/health-articles\/what-everyone-should-know-about-pressure-sores\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What everyone should know about Pressure Sores - 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