Community-Acquired Pressure Injuries in the Acute Care Setting

Effectiveness and Value of Prophylactic 5-Layer Foam Sacral Dressings to Prevent Hospital-Acquired Pressure Injuries in Acute Care Hospitals

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness and value of prophylactic 5-layer foam sacral dressings to prevent hospital-acquired pressure injury rates in acute care settings. DESIGN Retrospective observational cohort. SAMPLE AND SETTING We reviewed records of adult patients 18 years or older who were hospitalized at least 5 days across 38 acute care hospitals of the U...

Procedural sedation in the acute care setting.

Many patients require sedation during diagnostic or therapeutic procedures. Ideally, procedural sedation minimizes the patient's awareness and discomfort while maintaining the patient's safety. Appropriate monitoring by trained personnel is the key to successful procedural sedation. These techniques should be used only by health care professionals skilled in managing complications, including ca...

Hypoglycemia Revisited in the Acute Care Setting

Hypoglycemia is a common finding in both daily clinical practice and acute care settings. The causes of severe hypoglycemia (SH) are multi-factorial and the major etiologies are iatrogenic, infectious diseases with sepsis and tumor or autoimmune diseases. With the advent of aggressive lowering of HbA1c values to achieve optimal glycemic control, patients are at increased risk of hypoglycemic ep...

Toxoplasmic chorioretinitis in the setting of acute acquired toxoplasmosis.

Ocular toxoplasmosis is considered to be the most commonly recognized cause of chorioretinitis in the United States. It is commonly believed that the majority of cases of acute toxoplasmic chorioretinitis involving adults in the United States are late sequelae of congenital infection and that the condition is rarely associated with acute postnatally acquired infection. We report here the clinic...

Management of needlestick injuries in the health care setting.