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“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 [...]
“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 [...]
“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. [...]
“Study proves that quadri-amputee patient can regain a fully acceptable functional and quality of life being monitored in a specialized health center with a multidisciplinary health professional to help him” … Dr. Charlotte Gorney, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. What else did Dr. Gorney report in “Epidemiological Data, Functional Outcome, and Quality of Life of Patients [...]
“Central venous caterers should be removed as early as possible. It should never be assumed that removal of a catheter alone is adequate therapy in fungal BSIs” … Dr. Etienne Meriglier, Internal Medicine. What did Dr. Meriglier report in his article “Visceral localizations and mortality in catheter-Associated fungemia” in Research Square DOI? https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2251761/v1 “Fifty-two patients (36%) [...]
“A systematic review revealed recurrence and complication rates of 8.9 and 18.6% in musculocutaneous, fasciocutaneous and perforator-based flaps for treatment of pressure sores.” … Bahram Biglari, MD, Ph.D. What did Dr. Biglari report in “A retrospective study on flap complications after pressure ulcer surgery in spinal cord-injured patients”, published in the Spinal Cord (2014) 52, [...]
“The true meaning of living and dying with a palliative wound must be understood to align care with patient and family needs … This definition also includes people who are vulnerable and have impaired quality of life”… Duygu Sezgin, MSc, PhD. Greg Vigna, MD, JD, national decubitus ulcer attorney, states “Dr. Sezgin's statement of palliative [...]
“Routine Hospital Onset-Acquired Sepsis Event surveillance could complement current Hospital Acquired Infections measures, improve the efficiency and objectivity of surveillance, and provide a broader window into serious nosocomial infections” states Dr. Brady Page, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital. What else did Dr. Brady Page report in “Surveillance for Healthcare-Associated Infections: Hospital-Onset Adult Sepsis Events [...]
Dr. Greg Vigna, national mid-urethral sling attorney states, “The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), “Single-Incision Mini-Slings for Stress Urinary Incontinence in Women,” there remain unanswered questions regarding which single incision mini-sling, the Coloplast Altis or the Bard Adjust, was more responsible for the 2.5x greater risk of dyspareunia in the mini-sling group when compared [...]
“The use of surgical triple neurectomy seems effective and helpful in a high percentage of patients with chronic postoperative inguinal pain (CPIP)” states Professor Frederik Berrevoet, MD, Ph.D., Department of General Surgery, University Hospital in Ghent. What else did Dr. Berrevoet report in her article, “Surgical Treatment for Chronic Pain after Inguinal Hernia Repair: A [...]