Under Pressure: Shedding Light on the Issue of Pediatric Pressure Injury Treatment

Caroline C Bay1, Andrew E Grush, Edward P Buchanan

  • 1Caroline C. Bay, BA is Medical Student, Division of Plastic Surgery, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA. Andrew E. Grush, BS, is Clinical Research Fellow, Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, and Baylor College of Medicine. Edward P. Buchanan, MD, FACS, is Chief of Plastic Surgery, Texas Children's Hospital; Linda Highfield, PhD, MS, is Associate Professor, Department of Management, Policy and Community Health Practice, UT Health School of Public Health at Houston. Ryan Krasnosky, MPAS, PA-C, DFAAPA, DrPH is Division Chief Pediatric Wound Care, Texas Children's Hospital.

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