Hospital acquired foot ulcers reduced by 50 per cent since diabetes inpatient audit launched
27 June 2016 · Clinical audit shows a significant fall in foot ulcers but few changes in other patient harms and a continuing lack of specialist staff in many hospitals (Source: The IC : Obesity)
Source: The IC : Obesity - June 27, 2016 Category: Eating Disorders and Weight Management Source Type: news
Hospital acquired foot ulcers reduced by 50 per cent since diabetes inpatient audit launched
27 June 2016 · Clinical audit shows a significant fall in foot ulcers but few changes in other patient harms and a continuing lack of specialist staff in many hospitals (Source: The IC : Dentistry)
Source: The IC : Dentistry - June 27, 2016 Category: Dentistry Source Type: news
Hospital acquired foot ulcers reduced by 50 per cent since diabetes inpatient audit launched
27 June 2016 · Clinical audit shows a significant fall in foot ulcers but few changes in other patient harms and a continuing lack of specialist staff in many hospitals (Source: Health and Social Care Information Centre)
Source: Health and Social Care Information Centre - June 27, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
50% drop in rate of hospital-acquired foot ulcers, audit shows
Little improvement on other patient harms and lack of specialist staffRelated items from OnMedicaAnnual diabetes checks still being missedDiabetics suffer 200,000 complications per yearPoor diabetes education leading to health complicationsPoor state of diabetes care costs money and lives NHS must hold CCGs accountable for poor diabetes care (Source: OnMedica Latest News)
Source: OnMedica Latest News - June 26, 2016 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Amputation May Not Independently Predict Mortality in Diabetes Amputation May Not Independently Predict Mortality in Diabetes
In a 22-year study of male veterans with diabetes, foot ulcer and PAD independently predicted mortality, whereas amputation did not. Amputation can often improve quality of life, says one expert. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Diabetes Headlines)
Source: Medscape Diabetes Headlines - June 21, 2016 Category: Endocrinology Tags: Diabetes & Endocrinology News Source Type: news
Electric fields weaker in slow-healing diabetic wounds
People with diabetes often suffer from wounds that are slow to heal and can lead to ulcers, gangrene and amputation. New research from an international group shows that, in mouse models of diabetes, slow healing is associated with weaker electrical currents in wounds. The results could ultimately open up new approaches for managing diabetic patients. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - June 16, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
Electric fields weaker in slow-healing diabetic wounds
(University of California - Davis) People with diabetes often suffer from wounds that are slow to heal and can lead to ulcers, gangrene and amputation. New research from an international group led UC Davis shows that, in mouse models of diabetes, slow healing is associated with weaker electrical currents in wounds. The results could ultimately open up new approaches for managing diabetic patients. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - June 16, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Trueperella bernardiae Abscess Infection: a Case Report
Trueperella bernardiae was first characterized in 1987 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as a corynebacterium group 2 bacterium, as it was considered an uncommon pathogen, causing only opportunistic infections in compromised patients [1]. Only 15 cases of human infection have been reported since that time, which consist of urinary tract infections [2,3], joint infections [4–6], skin and soft-tissue infections [7,8], eye infection [9], necrotizing fasciitis [10], diabetic foot ulcer [11], bacteremia [7,8,12], and brain abscess [13]. (Source: Clinical Microbiology Newsletter)
Source: Clinical Microbiology Newsletter - June 10, 2016 Category: Microbiology Authors: Bobbie Rae F. VanGorder, Sally Sayed Ahmed, Russell A. Rawling, Paul A. Granato Tags: Case Report Source Type: news
Lung disease in smokers who don’t have COPD
This study affirms that these people can experience serious health consequences, even without COPD. This finding also brings into question how we should classify chronic respiratory disease. So far, we haven’t determined a way of classifying those who have symptoms but don’t quite meet the usual criteria for COPD, and we also don’t have much data or guidance on how best to treat them.
In the meantime, quitting smoking remains the best way to lower your chances of getting COPD — and the best way to lessen any respiratory symptoms you’re having. Most smokers who stop will feel better, with less cough and mu...
Source: New Harvard Health Information - June 9, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Wynne Armand, MD Tags: Health Lung disease Smoking cessation COPD Source Type: news
Avita Medical signs Malaysian distro deal with Mintcare
Avita Medical (ASX:AVH) said today it inked a distribution deal with Asia-Pacific specialized wound care product distributor Mintcare.
Through the deal, Mintcare will distribute Avita’s wound care products throughout the Asia-Pacific region, with an initial focus on Malaysia, U.K.-based Avita Medical said.
“The deal with Mintcare will give Avita Medical an active presence to deliver our innovative treatments to Malaysia, a market of 30 million people, and further underscores the significance of the broader Asian healthcare market for our company. We will keep developing our distributor network in the region so ...
Source: Mass Device - June 7, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Fink Densford Tags: Distribution Regenerative Medicine Avita Medical Ltd. Source Type: news
What to do when blood test results not quite “normal”
Picture this: you’re reading the results of your recent bloodwork, and you notice some numbers are teetering on the edge of the normal range. Should you be concerned? “It’s tricky, because in some tests, a borderline result makes no difference. In others, it might indicate an important change in health that we need to follow or act on,” says geriatrician Dr. Suzanne Salamon, assistant professor at Harvard Medical School.
About normal ranges and interpreting the numbers
When you look at a printout of your lab results, you’ll find the normal ranges for each blood test next to your personal results. For example, if ...
Source: New Harvard Health Information - June 2, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Heidi Godman Tags: Tests and procedures blood test Source Type: news
What to do when blood test results are not quite “normal”
Picture this: you’re reading the results of your recent bloodwork, and you notice some numbers are teetering on the edge of the normal range. Should you be concerned? “It’s tricky, because in some tests, a borderline result makes no difference. In others, it might indicate an important change in health that we need to follow or act on,” says geriatrician Dr. Suzanne Salamon, assistant professor at Harvard Medical School.
About normal ranges and interpreting the numbers
When you look at a printout of your lab results, you’ll find the normal ranges for each blood test next to your personal results. For example, if ...
Source: New Harvard Health Information - June 2, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Heidi Godman Tags: Tests and procedures blood test Source Type: news
Inside Portland's new 90-foot hyperbaric oxygen therapy chamber (Photos)
A 90-foot-long metal container has landed outside Legacy Emanuel Medical Center in North Portland. The inside resembles a space shuttle, with a panel of dials at the threshold of a pressurized tube.
The Legacy Emanuel Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Chamber opened for business today and will soon start treating conditions as varied as diabetic foot ulcers, flesh-eating bacterial infections and the bends.
“Oxygen is the medicine,” said Dr. Enoch Huang, program medical director for Hyperbaric Medicine/Wound… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - May 24, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Elizabeth Hayes Source Type: news
Diabetic foot ulcers linked to cognitive decline
Among patients with type 2 diabetes, those with foot ulcers show cognitive impairment across all domains when compared with those without, according to a report published in Diabetes Care.
In what... (Source: Clinical Endocrinology News)
Source: Clinical Endocrinology News - May 19, 2016 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news
Diabetic foot ulcers linked to cognitive decline
Among patients with type 2 diabetes, those with foot ulcers show cognitive impairment across all domains when compared with those without, according to a report published in Diabetes Care.
In what they described as one of the first studies to examine cognitive function in people with diabetic... (Source: Skin and Allergy News)
Source: Skin and Allergy News - May 19, 2016 Category: Dermatology Source Type: news
