Objective: The study was conducted to determine the fall risk of patients hospitalized in palliative care services state hospitals affiliated Bursa health directorate and differences between groups with without malnutrition risk. Method: sample study, which planned as a descriptive consisted consecutive (n=573) over 65 years age who were public Health Directorate first six months 2022. Itaki Fa...

bed sore in icu    r ghanee [1] , msc h gavami [2] , msc  received: 6 april, 2010 accepted: 24 may, 2010 abstract  background & aims: a fter cancer and cardiovascular diseases, pressure ulcers are the third costly disorders. most common causes of pressure ulcers development are age over 70 years, being male, white skin, smoking, low body mass index, impaired mobility, altered mental status, uri...

Intensive therapy of out-of-hospital pneumonia in conditions mass admission patients during 2020 presented many lessons, including regarding the strategy respiratory support, as it turned out that mechanical ventilation passive with COVID-19 is almost equivalent to a death sentence. On other hand, maintaining spontaneous breathing dyspnea and hyperpnea can cause specific self-inflicted lung inj...

Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common cause of dementia in elderly is a neurodegenerative characterized clinically by progressive memory deterioration. The becomes obvious as an insidious higher intellectual function impairment with altered mood and behavior, dramatic personality changes, disorientation, declining physical coordination inability to care for themselves. Histopathological cha...

BACKGROUND A pressure ulcer is a complication related to the need for the care and treatment of primarily disabled and elderly people. With the decrease of the blood flow caused by the pressure loaded, ulcers are formed and the tissue will be wasted with the passage of time. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to construct blood flow monitoring system on the heel tissue which was under extern...

Objectives: To investigate if the use of estimeted height (EH) by currently available prediction formulas might affect the screening and outcome prediction attitudes of both the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) and its short-form version (MNA-SF). Design: A 6-month observational study. Setting: Two long-term cares of the province of Como. Participants: 266 resident elderly (102 men, 164 women;...

Pressure ulcers, localized areas of tissue damage or necrosis that develop due to pressure over a bony prominence, are common causes of morbidity in older hospitalized and institutionalized persons. Other terms referring to the same phenomena are pressure sores, bedsores, and decubitus ulcers. Risk factors include immobility, friction, shear, incontinence, cognitive impairment and poor nutritio...

bedsore is a very important problem in bedridden patients. it affects patients’ lives and imposes substantial costs to society. its incidence approaches 38% and its annual prevalence is estimated to be 14.8% in patients who are admitted in hospitals. the national pressure ulcer advisory panel (npuap) and the european pressure ulcer advisory panel (epuap) define bedsore as “a localized injury to...