Long-term Acute Care Hospital: Designed for Flap Reconstruction-Decubitus Ulcers
Patients with deep Stage 3 and Stage 4 who are not provided flap closure have a 17% risk of [...]
Decubitus Ulcer Management: Maggot Therapy Versus Plastic Surgeons
Maggot therapy has never shown prevent osteomyelitis and death. LTACs may provide level of care for hospital or nursing [...]
Medical Device-Related Pressure Ulcers: Arkansas Hospital Hit with “Never Event” Lawsuit
Medical device-related pressure ulcers create localized injury to the skin or underlying tissue as a result of sustained pressure [...]
Bedsore Litigation Update: Ineffective Decubitus Ulcer Care in Focus
In our study, patients with Medicare or Medicaid were significantly more likely to develop a pressure ulcer than patients [...]
Effective Care for Bone Infections and Sacral Decubitus Ulcers in Hospitals
Reviewing cases where infectious disease specialists are not treating obvious symptoms of soft tissue infections from hospital or nursing [...]
Heel Decubitus Ulcer Study: Prognosis Poor for Severe Ulcers and in Those with Vascular Disease
Heel pressure ulcers' healing challenges and prognostic factors In a heel ulcer population, having a severe rather than a [...]
Ineffective Decubitus Ulcer Preventative Care: The Results Speak for Themselves
Optimal repositioning frequencies from human studies for decubitus ulcer prevention. Greg Vigna, MD, JD, national decubitus ulcer attorney explains, “The [...]
Stage 4 Decubitus Ulcer Care: Conservative Wound Care vs. Myocutaneous Flap
Evaluating hospital-acquired and nursing home-acquired decubitus ulcers and the care offered at LTACs “The outcomes of conservative wound care [...]
Stage 4 Decubitus Ulcer Care: Conservative Wound Care vs. Myocutaneous Flap
Evaluating hospital-acquired and nursing home-acquired decubitus ulcers and the care offered at LTACs. “The outcomes of conservative wound care [...]
Ineffective Decubitus Ulcer Care: Conservative Wound Care with Osteomylitis
Evaluating ineffective care provided at LTACs that is destined to fail for those with Stage 4 decubitus ulcers. “There [...]
Ineffective Decubitus Ulcer Care: Path to Osteomyelitis and Malnutrition
Evaluating hospital-acquired and nursing home-acquired decubitus ulcers and the care offered at Long-Term Acute Care Hospitals. “We describe treatments [...]
VAC Pack Doesn’t Save Lives of Patients with Decubitus Ulcers: Ineffective Care in Focus
Poor outcomes for decubitus-related osteomyelitis patients without myocutaneous flapping. “Among patients with decubitus-related osteomyelitis who did not undergo myocutaneous [...]