ICU Acquired Decubitus Ulcers: Prevention and Early Intervention

“Critically ill patients often have complex medical conditions that may limit their ability to be repositioned frequently, necessitating a careful assessment and tailored approach" states Dr. Flavia Castelino, Ph.D. What else did Dr. Castelino report in “Nursing Interventions to Prevent Pressure Ulcers in Critically Ill Patients: A Review of the Evidence”, published in the Asian [...]

2024-06-21T16:38:19+00:00June 19th, 2024|Decubitus Ulcer, News|0 Comments

Altis Single-incision Sling: Acute Pain Explained

“We believe the Altis sling polypropylene mesh is too stiff and too short and behaves like a razor in women, causing groin pain and dyspareunia. There is nothing about the Coloplast 522 Study that assures that this device is not unreasonably dangerous given 23.9% persons entering the study were lost to follow up” stated Greg [...]

2024-06-21T16:12:50+00:00June 18th, 2024|News|0 Comments

Study: Central-lines Result in Over Three Times the Risks for Right-sided Endocarditis

“In patients with pulmonary valve infective endocarditis, the median age was 44 years … this study showed a substantial proportion (36.6%) of patients with right-side infective endocarditis with pulmonary valve involvement” states Dr. Yongseop Lee, Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea. What else did Dr. Lee report in “Clinical [...]

2024-06-21T16:35:56+00:00June 3rd, 2024|News, PICC Lines|0 Comments

Mid-urethral Sling Complications: Management of Post-operative Groin Pain in Focus

“Transobturator tape removal with bilateral groin dissection improves patients’ pain and quality of life,” states Dr. Marie-Aimee Perrouin-Verbe, MD. What else did Dr. Perrouin-Verbe, MD, report in BJUI Compass, 2024; 1-11? “It is associated with a high rate of overall satisfaction, low morbidity and an acceptable rate of stress urinary incontinence recurrence compared to partial [...]

2024-06-21T16:02:48+00:00May 28th, 2024|News, Vaginal Mesh|0 Comments

Study: “In-house Pressure Ulcers as a Reservoir of Multidrug-resistant Organisms”

“The ulcers were considered to be the probable source of bacteraemia in 53% of the episodes," states I. A. Braga. What was reported in the article, “Bacterial colonization of pressure ulcers: assessment of risk for bloodstream infection and impact on patient outcomes” published in the Journal of Hospital Infection 83 (2013) 314-320. “A total of [...]

2024-06-21T16:36:06+00:00May 24th, 2024|Decubitus Ulcer, News|0 Comments

Study Retropubic Sling Injuries: Groin Pain and the Mispositioned Device

Dr. Greg Vigna, national malpractice, mid-urethral sling attorney, states “retropubic slings that are placed lateral to the arcus ligament into the obturator internus muscle can cause acute groin pain that becomes chronic. Women with acute groin pain following a retropubic sling cannot have their pain dismissed by their implanting surgeon as laterally positioned arms of retropubic [...]

2024-06-21T15:52:19+00:00May 23rd, 2024|News, Vaginal Mesh|0 Comments

Study Reports Bloodstream Infections for Intestinal Failure Comparing PICC Versus Hickman Lines

“When you do the math on the study population suffering from intestinal failure; 20% of patients who received a Hickman catheter developed a central-line infection and 18% of those who received a PICC line developed a central-line infection. Polyurethane and silicone PICCs and polyurethane were used for the Hickman lines. Both materials are defective” … Greg [...]

2024-06-21T15:48:00+00:00May 20th, 2024|News, PICC Lines|0 Comments

Decubitus Ulcer Management: The Modified “Basel Decubitus Concept” (Part 2)

“The standard of care for management of deep Stage III and Stage IV decubitus ulcers includes the plastic surgery component. These are serious injuries and outcomes are bad without access to myocutaneous flaps” … Greg Vigna, MD, JD, national decubitus ulcer attorney, Board Certified Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Dr Anke Scheel-Sailer, MD, Spinal Cord Medicine, Swiss [...]

2024-06-21T15:43:28+00:00May 17th, 2024|Decubitus Ulcer, News|0 Comments

Decubitus Ulcer Management: The Modified “Basel Decubitus Concept” (Part 1)

“The standard of care for management of deep Stage III and Stage IV decubitus ulcers includes the plastic surgery component. These are serious injuries and outcomes are bad without access to myocutaneous flaps” … Greg Vigna, MD, JD, national decubitus ulcer attorney, Board Certified Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Dr. Anke Scheel-Sailer, MD, Spinal Cord Medicine, Swiss [...]

2024-06-21T15:37:35+00:00May 17th, 2024|Decubitus Ulcer, News|0 Comments

Rehabilitation of Patients with Stage IV Pelvic Decubitus Ulcers

“Providing rehabilitation in patients with stage IV decubitus ulcers on the coccyx, ischium, or sacrum is at best difficult or futile at worst. In patients who desire myocutanteous flap closure, patients under my care, we would out of the bed rehabilitation until after surgical closure of the wound” … Greg Vigna, MD, JD, national wound care attorney. [...]

2024-06-21T16:37:32+00:00May 15th, 2024|Decubitus Ulcer, News|0 Comments
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