Search results for "emergency"

Nursing documentation of pressure ulcers in nursing homes: comparison of record content and patient examinations

2016

Aim The aim of this study was to describe the accuracy and quality of nursing documentation of the prevalence, risk factors and prevention of pressure ulcers, and compare retrospective audits of nursing documentation with patient examinations conducted in nursing homes. Design This study used a cross-sectional descriptive design. Method A retrospective audit of 155 patients' records and patient examinations using the European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel form and the Braden scale, conducted in January and February 2013. Results The prevalence of pressure ulcers was 38 (26%) in the audit of the patient records and 33 (22%) in patient examinations. A total of 17 (45%) of the documented press…

Undergraduate education in emergency medicine

1990

MON-PP191: Costs of Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition Support at Tertiary Hospital: Single Hospital Experience

2015

42 PROGNOSIS OF ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKE RELATED WITH CARDIOVASCULAR DRUGS TREATMENT DURING HOSPITAL STAY

2008

Sleep apnea and its role in transportation safety

2017

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a main cause of excessive daytime sleepiness and increases the risk for driving accidents, which can be normalized by treatment with continuous positive airway pressure ventilation. Since it is estimated that OSA is not diagnosed in about 80% of cases, recognition of patients at risk for driving accidents is a problem from both medical and societal points of view. Strategies to screen and identify subjects at high risk for driving accidents are under study in order to improve safety on the road, especially for commercial drivers, who show a high prevalence of OSA.

Fire in operating room: The adverse "never" event. Case report, mini-review and medico-legal considerations.

2020

Abstract The patient’s security and safety represent a topic of great importance for public health that led several healthcare organizations in many Countries to share documents to promote risk management and preventing adverse events. Surgical Fire (SF) is an infrequent adverse event generally occurring in the operating room (OR) and consisting of a fire that occurs in, on, or around a patient undergoing a medical or surgical procedure. Here a medico-legal case involving a 65-year-old woman reporting burns to the neck due to an SF during a thyroidectomy was described. A literature review was performed using Pubmed and Scopus databases, focusing on epidemiology, causes, prevention activitie…

New Viewpoint in Exaggerated Increase of PtiO2 With Normobaric Hyperoxygenation and Reasons to Limit Oxygen Use in Neurotrauma Patients

2018

Acetabulumfrakturen im Alter

2002

Acetabular fractures in elderly patients are rare injuries, but their incidence is increasing. Poor bone quality due to osteoporosis and an increased operative risk due to concomitant disease are factors complicating surgical therapy. Literature does not provide generally accepted treatment protocols. In a 4-year period, 27 patients who were 65 years or older and who had an acute displaced fracture of the acetabulum were admitted to our department. Four minimally displaced and stable fractures were managed conservatively. Internal fixation was performed in 16 cases. According to the Merle d'Aubigne score, in 15 out of 18 surviving patients excellent or good results were found. Treatment str…

Callus distraction of the femur and tibia. Experience with the Monofixator - indications for reosteosynthesis

1998

In a 4-year period, 18 patients underwent callus distraction of the femur or tibia with the use of a unilateral external fixator. Twelve patients had post-traumatic bone loss resulting from complex lower-limb fractures. The bony defect was located in the tibia in 11 cases and in the femur in one case. All patients had major associated soft-tissue lesions. The length of the bony defect averaged 6.25 cm. Eight fractures were infected at the beginning of treatment. Six other patients underwent callus distraction for reasons of limb shortening. Five femora and one tibia were lengthened. The average increase in length was 6.5 cm. There were no fixator-related complications during distraction. Th…

Ergebnisse nach primärer ungebohrter Tibianagelung von Unterschenkelfrakturen mit schwerem offenem oder geschlossenem Weichteilschaden

1996

Primary stabilization was performed in 72 tibial fractures with sever open (n = 37) or closed (n = 35) soft tissue injury using unreamed interlocking nails. In 60 (83%) cases the fractures healed without additional procedures. There were 2 cases of osteitis, but both these fractures healed after removal of the nail or after reamed nailing. In 9 patients with delayed union reamed nailing (n = 8) or bone grafting (n = 1) led to healing. In 1 patient with hypertrophic pseudarthrosis, union was achieved after substitution of a reamed nail for the anreamed nail. The infection rate was similar to that observed with external fixation. More secondary procedures, such as bone grafting or a change of…