Most mishaps happening at clinical foundations treating older patients with portability hindrance are bedsores and slip-and-fall accidents. One reason for this high pace of is the absence nursing faculty. So as to help parental figures in old who unable move freely, we offer an arrangement implementation a wise bed work. This bed. Under sheet material spread, couple weight sensors passed consid...

Objectives: Extensive use of wheelchair increases caregiver dependency, risk of bedsores, risk of injury during transfer, and so on, and it effectively decreases quality of life, safety, and comfort of the people with disability. Therefore, improving the design of wheelchairs is highly essential in promoting the quality of life and level of participation among people with disability. The design...

BACKGROUND Physical restraints are a common, albeit controversial, tool used in the acute care setting. OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence of physical restraint use in an acute care hospital. Secondary objectives were to determine whether physical restraints are used more commonly in night shifts, identify patient risk factors for physical restraint use, and establish if staff-to-patient ...

Pressure ulcers (or pressure sores, bedsores, decubiti or decubitis ulcers) are areas of localised damage or trauma to the skin and underlying tissue, caused by pressure, friction or shear. They generally occur over bony prominences such as the base of the spine, heels and hips and are most common in people with impaired mobility, spinal cord injuries, severe acute illness (patients in ICU) and...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the use of pedicle screw fixation in earthquake injured thoracolumbar spine. METHODS Nineteen patients with posttraumatic instability of lower thoracic or upper lumbar spine were included in the study. White and Panjabi criteria was used to assess spinal instability. All patients underwent open reduction and internal fixation by posterior approach. Pedicles were localiz...

Abstract—Elderly population in the world is increasing, and consequently, their nursing burden is also increasing. In such situations, monitoring and evaluating their daily action facilitates efficient nursing care. Especially, we focus on an unconscious activity during sleep, i.e. turnover. Monitoring turnover during sleep is essential to evaluate various conditions related to sleep. Bedsores ...

BACKGROUND Veterans are among the highly-susceptible and highly-esteemed groups of the society. there is no correct, principled, and comprehensive programming with respect to home-nursing care for them. METHODS In this quasi-experimental study, 26 veterans with spinal cord complications, with a 70-percent damage who were resident of Najaf Abad, Iran were concluded. The data were gathered by a...

Out of 200 infections due to Bacteroides fragilis occurring over a period of three years 133 were related to the intestinal tract, 55 to the genitourinary tract, and the remainder were in bedsores and ulcers; 56% occurred in patients undergoing major intestinal surgery.B. fragilis was isolated in pure culture from 56% of the infections. In mixed culture it was most commonly associated with Kleb...