JAMA: What has the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) accomplished in the past few years? DR BERWICK: [T]he center has really stimulated I think an unprecedented amount of activity around the country in the localities, very local activities, to come up with new ways to give and support care. A great example has been the Partnership for Patients. That was a program that I establi...

at present, the solutions to prevent bedsore include using various techniques for movement and displacement of patients, which is not  possible for some patients or dangerous for some of them while it also poses problems for health care providers. on the other hand, development of information technology in the health care system including application of wireless sensor networks (wsns) has led t...

THE care of paraplegics has always been a major nursing problem; many methods have been used, but most of these are difficult, complicated and time consuming. When, in 1937, an American, Dr. Homer Stryker of Michigan University, developed the Stryker frame he solved many of these nursing problems, and the U.S. Army and Naval hospitals proved its worth during the 1939-1945 world war. Today, Amer...

Previously transgenic Kalanchoe pinnata plants producing an antimicrobial peptide cecropin P1 (CecP1) have been reported. Now we report biological testing K. pinnata extracts containing CecP1 as a candidate drug for treatment of wounds infected with Candida albicans. The drug constitutes the whole juice from K. pinnata leaves (not ethanol extract) sterilized with nanofiltration. A microbicide a...

RELEVANCE A special place in the development of enteral insufficiency is given to dysproteinemia, which one leading causes decubital ulcers patients with spinal cord injury. Early nutrition partially solved this problem, but incidence bedsores still remains high and reaches 68%. The risk metabolic disorders acute period injury largely determined by non-occlusive intestinal ischemia against back...

Vranaharin, an ayurvedic oil manufactured by MMCA Remedies Pharmaceuticals, Karnataka, India, is a red-colored drug, prepared from several traditionally used plant ingredients and in postoperative dressings, bedsores, burns, cuts, wounds, diabetic ulcers, abscesses, skin infections, nail fungus, herpes so on. This research aims to investigate Vranaharin oil, understand its side-effects such as ...