Clinical Photograph of Stage IV Sacral Bed Sore in A Patient Of Cervical Spine Injury

Bed sores or pressure ulcers are a very common complication of spinal injury resulting in sensory loss. Bony prominences like trochanters and sacral area are very prone to developing bed sores in patient who are in lying position. Poor nutrition of the skin and old age further aggravates the problem.

This is a photograph of back of a 32 years old male who suffered cervical spine injury after a fall from moving vehicle. Injured levels were C5 and C6 vertebrae. The injury resulted in transaction of the spinal cord. Patient had quadriplegia and sensory loss below C6 spinal segment distribution.

Patient was managed with fixation of  injured vertebrae and was put on wheel chair mobilisation. He developed a sacral bed sore too that progressed to Stage IV i.e become bone deep.