background: the purpose of this study was to present a scientific reason for pressure ulcer risk scales: cubbin& jackson modified braden, norton, and waterlow, as a nursing diagnosis tool by utilizing predictive validity of pressure sores. methods: articles published between 1966 and 2013 from periodicals indexed in the ovid medline, embase, cinahl, koreamed, ndsl, and other databases were sele...

BACKGROUND Patients at risk of malnutrition and related morbidity and mortality can be identified with the Nutritional Risk Index (NRI). However, this index remains limited for elderly patients because of difficulties in establishing their normal weight. OBJECTIVE Therefore, we replaced the usual weight in this formula by ideal weight according to the Lorentz formula (WLo), creating a new ind...

The Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) is recommended for grading nutritional status in the elderly. A new index for predicting the risk of nutrition-related complications, the Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index (GNRI), was recently proposed but little is known about its possible use in the assessment of nutritional status. Thus, we aimed to investigate its ability to assess the nutritional status...

BACKGROUND Hypothermia is being used with increasing frequency to prevent or mitigate various types of neurologic injury. In addition, symptomatic fever control is becoming an increasingly accepted goal of therapy in patients with neurocritical illness. However, effectively controlling fever and inducing hypothermia poses special challenges to the intensive care unit team and others involved in...

William T Wake, MD, fAAfP, is a Physician in the Department of Family Medicine and Department of Continuing Care at the Baldwin Park Medical Center in CA. E-mail: [email protected]. Introduction Pressure ulcer treatment is one of many aspects of patient care in which nursing care interfaces directly with clinician-provided medical services. Traditionally, the treatment of pressure ulcers ha...

OBJECTIVE To investigate how total lymphocyte count (TLC) and the Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index (GNRI) are associated with short-term nutritional-related complications (death, infections, bedsores) in institutionalised elderly. METHODS 220 home-care resident elderly (age +/- SD; 80.7 +/- 7.9, range: 67-98 years) were studied (anthropometry, biochemistry, food intake) and prospectively foll...

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 b...

abstract aims: the increasing usage of antibiotics can cause resistance to the treatment of infections, which can caused by bacteria, e.g. pseudomonas aeruginosa. the aim of this study was to trace the class i, ii and iii integrons in isolates of p. aeruginosa of nosocomial infection and determining the antibiotic resistance pattern of the bacteria. instrument & methods: in this cross-sectional...

The doctrine of the wound process is still one challenging issues modern surgery; it reflects achievements theoretical and practical medicine technical engineering as well. Slow-healing wounds, extensive necrosis in soft tissues, trophic ulcers shins patients with circulatory disorders various aetiology, purulent bedsores, infected burn surfaces other septic-inflammatory processes are particula...

Abstract Introduction/Objective Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a major nosocomial pathogen often causing serious multi-drug resistant (MDR) infections. Resistant strains, including carbapenem-resistant (CR), are increrasing especially in intensive care units (ICU) which limits treatment options to nephrotoxic aminoglycosides and polymyxins, results failure of initial therapy, significant mortality, ...