Dermatology Research

KEY FINDING: Toilet seating without a cushion results in significantly higher maximum buttock pressure compared to wheelchair seating with an air cushion.

KEY FINDING: Patients who received flap surgery (FP) had significantly longer hospital stays than those treated medically (NFP), with an average length of stay of 148 days compared to 111 days (P = 0.01).

KEY FINDING: Provider perspectives on CAPrI prevention encompass veteran risk characteristics, preventive activities, and available resources from providers, family, and the community.

KEY FINDING: Ten different approaches were identified, including debridement, flap surgery, pressure relief, immobilization, and infection control.

KEY FINDING: Optimal cutoff thresholds for in-seat movement metrics included unloading event frequency of 3.1 times per hour, maximum time between events of 155.4 min, and CoP Percent Active of 2.6%.

KEY FINDING: Providers and veterans agreed on the fundamentals of care and the importance of support from family, caregivers, and the healthcare system.

KEY FINDING: Three significant predictors of non-healed PrI outcomes included receiving pressure mapping during the hospitalization, greater PrI depth, and the usage of alginate dressings.

KEY FINDING: Medical records were the most sensitive data source, detecting 82% of medically serious pressure injuries (MSPrIs).

KEY FINDING: Both patients developed spinal cord injuries as a result of pyogenic spinal infections (PSI) caused by Staphylococcus aureus originating from infected atopic eczema.

KEY FINDING: Whole genome sequencing identified 260 genes with increased single-nucleotide variations in exonic regions among individuals with high intramuscular adipose tissue levels and recurrent PIs.