By the Numbers: You Call That a Bedsore?
(MedPage Today) -- Hospitals rarely agree on presence of injuries, study finds (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - August 4, 2017 Category: American Health Source Type: news
When Loved Ones Die At Home, Family Caregivers Pay The Price
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Increasingly, people are dying at home, which sounds like a good thing. For years, Americans have told researchers and anyone else who would listen that this is how they want to go: surrounded by loved ones in the familiarity of their own house.
But is dying at home really best for everyone?
About one-quarter of all U.S. deaths now occur at home. That reflects a 29.5 percent increase from 2000 to 2014, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Over t...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - June 1, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
There's A Strong Chance You Are Paying For Expensive Medical Billing Mistakes
Medical bills are the gift that keeps on giving. Having lost my husband in January, I can attest that not even death puts an end to the steady stream of bills for his care that I still get in the mail. Balance billing, services not covered, out-of-network doctors ― they all come back to haunt you in the form of bills ― including a good number from doctors you’ve never met or heard of, and who you don’t when or why even saw your loved one.
The bills? I expected them. What I didn’t expect was to learn that medical bills notoriously contain errors ― big errors. While there are no comprehensive statisti...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - May 17, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Nasa Mars probe being used to detect bed sores
Using electronics adapted from those installed in the Phoenix spacecraft (pictured), which landed on Mars in 2008, the wireless probe is able to detect painful bed sores before they are visible. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 8, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Study defines global burden of skin disease
(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) A study published today in JAMA Dermatology combines the prevalence of skin diseases around the world with their likelihood of creating disability across the lifespan to define the following 10 most challenging conditions (arranged in order of decreasing 'disability-adjusted life years'): dermatitis, acne, hives, psoriasis, viral skin diseases, fungal skin diseases, scabies, melanoma, pyoderma, cellulitis, non-melanoma skin cancer, decubitus ulcer, and alopecia areata. (Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer)
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - March 1, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
Vitamin D Status at ICU Admission May Predict A-Fib and Bedsores Vitamin D Status at ICU Admission May Predict A-Fib and Bedsores
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Source: Medscape General Surgery Headlines - February 28, 2017 Category: Surgery Tags: Internal Medicine News Source Type: news
In hospital error report, a lot of lost samples
One of the most common "adverse events" tracked by Minnesota hospitals is a simple one: Losing track of tissue samples from patients.
The Star Tribune crunches the numbers from the latest state report on hospital errors, which increased slightly overall from 2015. Hospitals use the data to spot areas where they can improve care and avoid basic mistakes.
The biggest categories this year were mistakes causing pressure ulcers (aka bedsores) and falls, but the relatively new category of lost biological… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - February 17, 2017 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Mark Reilly Source Type: news
Stop Telling Me How To Be A Widow
Before you start tossing around the “H” word ― hussy, the brazen variety ― let me assure you that I deeply loved the man I was married to. But 10 days after his death last month, I became that cliche: The new widow who runs out and buys a hot red car.
This car, she’s a beauty. She came fully equipped with all those high-tech bells and whistles; she listens to my voice and actually does what I tell her ― something my late husband, rest his soul, never did with any regularity. She has a panoramic sunroof that highlights the red in my hair and hell, she even parallel parks herself so that I won&rs...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - February 15, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Efforts To Prolong My Husband's Life Cost Him An Easy Death
For the past seven months, I’ve carried around my husband’s advance medical directive in my purse. During this time, I’ve shown this lawyer-prepared and notarized document to dozens of doctors, nurses, ambulance crews, surgeons, dialysis center teams, hospital emergency room workers and administrators, intake staff, nurse practitioners, nursing home staff, medical transportation drivers, and others. I’m an expert in summarizing its contents, and my 11-second elevator pitch goes like this: Do not resuscitate. No heroic measures. A gentle and peaceful death, pain-free and with dignity. Please.
Af...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - January 26, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Skin cells'crawl' together to heal wounds treated with unique hydrogel layer
Scientist have demonstrated for the first time that their peptide-hydrogel biomaterial prompts skin cells to ' crawl ' toward one another, closing chronic, non-healing wounds often associated with diabetes, such as bed sores and foot ulcers. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - December 14, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
Skin cells 'crawl' together to heal wounds treated with unique hydrogel layer
(University of Toronto Faculty of Applied Science& Engineering) A team led by Professor Milica Radisic in U of T Engineering has demonstrated for the first time that their peptide-hydrogel biomaterial prompts skin cells to 'crawl' toward one another, closing chronic, non-healing wounds often associated with diabetes, such as bed sores and foot ulcers. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - December 14, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Please, Family Caregivers Do NOT Need Coloring Books
A publicist, attempting to link her client to National Family Caregivers Month, just sent me a pitch asking that I write about how an adult coloring book is a way “to relieve caregiving stress.”
May I just say this? Family caregivers don’t need coloring books. What we need is help and money. Physical help, and real-life green dollar bills.
We need someone to drive our loved ones to the doctor for us so we can go to work, to sit with us while we wait endless hours in hospitals, to bring over some meals or offer to fetch our kids from the school bus.
We need professionally trained nurses to do what we are e...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - November 10, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Sheffield pensioner who was found sobbing in her wheelchair dies from infected bed sores
Mabel Massey, from Sheffield, had been left in her wheelchair without foot supports. An investigation into her care by social services later concluded she had been the victim of 'institutional neglect'. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - September 2, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
10 Rules To Reinventing Yourself
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Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - August 30, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Five Stars For CMS, A Federal Agency Standing Up For Healthcare Transparency
Yesterday I met a lovely, gracious woman who I’ll call Deborah. She confided a deeply distressing story about her experience in a hospital. Deborah’s mother was admitted for a minor procedure and, after suffering a cascading series of errors, ended up with bedsores so severe the bones were exposed. These are called stage 3 or stage 4 pressure ulcers—formally classified as“never events”—extremely dangerous, extraordinarily painful and often deadly wounds that are virtually 100% preventable. Deborah’s mom died shortly thereafter. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - August 1, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Leah Binder Source Type: news
