Just as an art ist signs his works, it has been sug gested that God has signed His work of Cre ation by en coding within the DNA of all liv ing things His name ac cording to the an cient He brew and Arabic al pha bets. A star tling dis cov ery if true. Af ter a 12-year study, New York Times best sell ing au thor Gregg Braden claims to have discov ered just such a sig na ture—what he calls “the ...

AIM This paper reports a systematic review conducted to determine the effectiveness of the use of risk assessment scales for pressure ulcer prevention in clinical practice, degree of validation of risk assessment scales, and effectiveness of risk assessment scales as indicators of risk of developing a pressure ulcer. BACKGROUND Pressure ulcers are an important health problem. The best strateg...

Assessing discharge risks for infants and toddlers who have undergone moderate sedation Key words: patient discharge, pediatric, caregiver, moderate sedation. Assessing a child for sleep apnea Key words: pediatric, obstructive sleep apnea, moderate sedation. Using a frailty index to assess surgical patients Key words: frailty, surgical complications, older adult, Braden Scale, Fried Frailty Cri...

To derive a brief bedside pressure ulcer prediction tool for patients admitted to acute care hospitals, we conducted a prospective study of first pressure ulcer incidence among 1,190 consecutive patients hospitalized in selected wards of a Swiss teaching hospital. Baseline predictors included patient age and items from the Norton and Braden ulcer prediction scales. During follow-up, 170 patient...

The objective of this a cross-sectional analytical study was to estimate the occurrence of pressure ulcers and their associated factors in adult ICUs in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The sample consisted of 142 patients aged 18 or older, admitted before midnight of the day prior to data collection, from a total of 316 beds distributed in 22 ICUs. Presence of at least one pressure ulcer pe...

T ueday, M arch 8, 2017 METHODS: Patients who underwent Exparel injection and On-Q implantation following autologous reconstruction were reviewed. Primary outcome measures included: Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA) dose/frequency/ attempts/rejections, daily pain score, required oral postoperative pain medication, and return-to-ambulation. Postoperative oral pain medications were converted to ...