Community-Acquired Pressure Injuries in the Acute Care Setting
CONCLUSIONS
Providers have an opportunity to make a difference in the prevalence of PIs occurring outside of acute and postacute care settings. (Source: Advances in Skin and Wound Care)
Source: Advances in Skin and Wound Care - February 22, 2021 Category: Dermatology Tags: ONLINE EXCLUSIVES Source Type: research
Investigating the Psychometric Properties of the Pieper-Zulkowski Pressure Ulcer Knowledge Test among Nurses in Iran
CONCLUSIONS
This study showed that the Persian version of the PZ-PUKT is valid and reliable for use in Iran. It can be used in education and research to assess nurses’ knowledge as well as to evaluate the effectiveness of training programs on prevention and care of pressure injuries. (Source: Advances in Skin and Wound Care)
Source: Advances in Skin and Wound Care - February 22, 2021 Category: Dermatology Tags: ONLINE EXCLUSIVES Source Type: research
Nutrition Essentials: Pressure Injury Prevention and Healing for Adults
No abstract available (Source: Advances in Skin and Wound Care)
Source: Advances in Skin and Wound Care - February 22, 2021 Category: Dermatology Tags: DEPARTMENTS: PRACTICE POINTS Source Type: research
Angiosomal Vascular Occlusions, Deep-Tissue Pressure Injuries, and Competing Theories: A Case Report
This article presents just such a perioperative case with the aim of providing further evidence that these more severe PrIs may result from ischemic insults of a named vessel within specific vascular territories (labeled as angiosomes). Pressure is indeed a factor in the formation of severe PrIs, but these authors postulate that the occlusion occurred at the level of a named artery proximal to the lesion. This vascular event was likely attributable to low mean arterial pressure. The authors suggest that the terminology proposed three decades ago to call both deep-tissue injuries and stage 4 PrIs “vascular occlusion press...
Source: Advances in Skin and Wound Care - February 22, 2021 Category: Dermatology Tags: CASE REPORT Source Type: research
A 10-Year Prevalence Survey and Clinical Features Analysis of Pressure Injury in a Tertiary Hospital in China, 2009–2018
OBJECTIVE
To describe the 10-year prevalence of pressure injury (PI) in a tertiary hospital in China and determine the clinical characteristics of inpatients with PI.
METHODS
The authors performed a retrospective analysis of PI cases extracted from the electronic health record of a tertiary hospital. The trend of PI prevalence over 10 years was described by estimating the average percent change (EAPC). Comorbidities were described with the Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI). The clinical characteristics of PI were described using the number of cases and composition ratio.
RESULTS
The overall prevalence of P...
Source: Advances in Skin and Wound Care - February 22, 2021 Category: Dermatology Tags: ORIGINAL INVESTIGATION Source Type: research
