This article reports the findings of a small evaluation audit which compares the Dyna-Form Mercury Advance Mattress to that of the Softform Premier Active Mattress (a foam mattress with dynamic underlay). A small group of patients with similar co-morbidities who were an emergency admission were recruited to an evaluation audit. Their median age and Waterlow score indicated that these patients w...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To consider the validity and reliability of risk assessment scales for pressure ulcers. BACKGROUND Pressure ulcers are a major problem worldwide. They cause morbidity and lead to mortality. Risk assessment scales have been available for nearly 50 years, but there is insufficient evidence to state with any certainty that they are useful. DESIGN A literature review and com...

Background: Malnutrition is a serious and lasting burden worldwide. Woman, infants, children, adolescents are at particular risk of malnutrition. Prevalence malnutrition children under 5 years in 2020 was 45 million were estimated to be wasted, 38.9 overweight or obese. Around 45% deaths among old related undernutrition, especially low- middle-income countries. Children with kidney disease fact...

Background The incidence of pressure injury/ulcers is persistent despite multiple prevention strategies in hospitals across the globe. Current standard injury/ulcer care supported by subjective skin tissue assessments, risk assessment tools and clinical judgement ineffective consistent prevention. Aim A pragmatic study, aligning with SQUIRE guidelines, was conducted at Chelsea Westminster to me...

As has been pointed out already (Casey, 1989) homologous milk appears to promote optimal growth and well-being in the infant, although it is not .entirely clear why this should necessarily be so. The difficulty in fully understanding the basis of the relations is particularly well illustrated for protein and amino acids. Within the framework of our general appreciation of nitrogen and protein r...

This project was conducted in an Australian rural base hospital. It compared the Norton and Waterlow pressure ulcer risk assessment scales with an informal nurse assessment via a prevalence and an incidence study of inpatients. This study, more a pilot study due to the small sample size, suggests that the pressure ulcer prevalence and incidence within this Australian hospital was comparable to ...

the aim of this study was to assess the mutritional status of 2-5 year old children and the effects of some known related factors in the rural areas of khoramabad(lorestan province) in the summer of 1994 and also to determine the anemic atatus of those children.the sample 1 included 461 children,2-5 years old,from 30 clusters that were selected by two stages cluster sampling,randomly.data were ...

Clinical material studied. During the past I 5 months, I 15 cases of liver disease have been investigated in this Department by Hill (1951) and Hill & Rhodes (1951). Ninety liver biopsies were performed on fifty-eight of the cases by the needle technique and, in addition, ten post-mortem specimens were examined. Though the majority of these patients looked chubby and well nourished, all had an ...

Whitehead (1965) recently showed that a measurement of the amount of hydroxyproline excreted in the urine was of value in detecting marginal malnutrition. He also suggested that a simultaneous measurement of the plasma amino acid ratio (Whitehead, 1964) provided a biochemical means of differentiating between malnutrition, in which the primary deficiency was one of protein, and undernutrition du...