scholarly journals Is malignancy effective in the healing time of pressure ulcers in intensive care patients?

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 362-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Manzano ◽  
Ana M. Pérez-Pérez ◽  
Susana Martínez-Ruiz ◽  
Cristina Garrido-Colmenero ◽  
Delphine Roldan ◽  
...  

2002 ◽  
Vol 28 (10) ◽  
pp. 1379-1388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Keller ◽  
Jan Wille ◽  
Bert van Ramshorst ◽  
Christian van der Werken

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 494-501 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Hyun ◽  
X. Li ◽  
B. Vermillion ◽  
C. Newton ◽  
M. Fall ◽  
...  

2013 ◽  
Vol 69 (9) ◽  
pp. 2099-2106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Manzano ◽  
Ana-María Pérez ◽  
Manuel Colmenero ◽  
María-Mar Aguilar ◽  
Emilio Sánchez-Cantalejo ◽  
...  

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica LeBlanc

<p>Pressure ulcers have been a persistent issue in hospitals for many years and continue to remain a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Most hospital acquired pressure ulcers (HAPUs) are considered preventable and are identified by the National Quality Forum as a nurse-sensitive quality indicator. Intensive care patients in particular tend to be at a higher risk to develop PUs and prevention in the intensive care population continues to be a major challenge in many hospitals. Recently, some intensive care units have been utilizing a preventative silicone foam barrier dressing applied to patients admitted to the unit in order reduce the incidence of HAPUs. The purpose of this research was to determine if a silicone foam border dressing applied to medical intensive care patients would result in a decreased sacral HAPU occurrence rate in the medical ICU. The data collection took place at the Miriam Hospital, a 247-bed tertiary care hospital in Providence, Rhode Island. The medical ICU at the Miriam Hospital is a 16-bed unit. A retrospective chart review was conducted on 250 medical records that were coded with ICD-9 codes for pressure ulcers. Group One (treatment group) included medical intensive care unit patients who had preventative dressings applied to the sacrum. Group Two (comparison group) included patients who did not have a preventative dressing applied. Results demonstrated that there was a decrease in the occurrence rate of HAPUs after the preventative dressings were initiated. Recommendations and implications for advanced practice nursing are discussed.</p>


2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-76
Author(s):  
Namigar Turgut ◽  
Aysel Ak ◽  
Erkan Ak ◽  
Nagihan Yakar ◽  
Nuri Yakar ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (8) ◽  
pp. 512-521 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Barakat-Johnson ◽  
Michelle Lai ◽  
Timothy Wand ◽  
Mengbo Li ◽  
Kathryn White ◽  
...  

Objective: The objective of this review was to synthesise the literature and evaluate the incidence, prevalence and severity of medical device-related pressure ulcers (MDRPU) in adult intensive care patients. Method: Electronic databases and additional grey literature were searched for publications between 2000 and 2017. Outcome measures included cumulative incidence or incidence rate, point prevalence or period prevalence as a primary outcome and the severity and location of the pressure ulcer (PU) as secondary outcome measures. Included studies were assessed for risk of bias using a nine-item checklist for prevalence studies. The heterogeneity was evaluated using 12 statistic. Results: We included 13 studies in this review. Prevalence was reported more frequently than incidence. Pooled data demonstrated a high variation in the incidence and prevalence rates ranging from 0.9% to 41.2% in incidence and 1.4% to 121% in prevalence. Heterogeneity was high. Mucosal pressure injuries were the most common stage reported in the incidence studies whereas category II followed by category I were most commonly reported in the prevalence studies. In the incidence studies, the most common location was the ear and in the prevalence studies it was the nose. Conclusion: While MDRPU are common in intensive care patients, it is an understudied area. Inconsistency in the staging of MDRPU, along with variations in data collection methods, study design and reporting affect the reported incidence and prevalence rates. Standardisation of data reporting and collection method is essential for pooling of future studies.


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