Antibacterial activity of high-dose nitric oxide against pulmonary disease.

Introduction: is an emerging pulmonary pathogen with limited treatment options. Nitric oxide (NO) demonstrates antibacterial activity against various bacterial species, including mycobacteria. In this study, we evaluated the effect of adjunctive inhaled NO therapy, using a novel NO generator, in a CF patient with pulmonary disease, and examined heterogeneity of response to NO .

Increasing Access to Specialized Dermatology Care: A Retrospective Study Investigating Clinical Operation and Impact of a University-Affiliated Free Clinic.

Introduction: Our objective was to study the impact and clinical operation of an integrated model for free specialized dermatology care via collaboration between an academic institution and a nonprofit outpatient clinic through an analysis of patient demographics and care provided.

Methods: Hope@UMHS is a partnership between the University of Michigan Health System (UMHS) and Hope Clinic (HC) which provides free specialty consultations to uninsured residents of Southeast Michigan. A retrospective chart review was completed for patients referred to the UMHS Dermatology clinic as part of the HOPE@UMHS collaboration from April 2012 through February 2020.

Assessment of Temporal Fine Structure Processing Among Older Adults With Cochlear Implants.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to determine if older adults with cochlear implants are able to take advantage of coding schemes that preserve temporal fine structure (TFS) cues.

Design: A total of 19 older adults with cochlear implants participated in a prospective, repeated measures, A to B design. Participants entered the study using TFS.

Health-related quality of life outcomes following adult cochlear implantation: A prospective cohort study.

Introduction: The benefits of cochlear implantation extend beyond improved speech recognition and into overall health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Several measures of HRQoL, categorized as generic or disease specific, have been used in the cochlear implant literature. The clinical utility of generic HRQoL measures have been reported to be variable by previous investigators.

Early outcomes after cochlear implantation for adults and children with unilateral hearing loss.

Objectives/hypothesis: This study was designed to examine speech recognition and self-perceived health-related quality of life (HRQoL) received from cochlear implantation among a cohort of adults and children with a short duration of unilateral hearing loss greater than 6 months, but less than 2 years.

Study Design: Single-subject repeated measures prospective study.

Methods: This study assessed changes in speech recognition and self-perceived quality of life by prospectively analyzing data at the preoperative evaluation and at the 3-month and 6-month postactivation intervals.

Educating Health Care Providers in Treatment of Patients With Ebola Virus Disease.

Nurses manage patients with common infectious diseases by following institutional guidelines based on expert advice, evidence in the literature, and a wealth of experience. Today nurses are challenged to provide care to patients with multidrug-resistant organisms and virulent infectious diseases such as Ebola virus disease. Management of some patients with virulent infectious diseases occurs in the context of minimal experience with the pathogen, course of infection, diagnostics, nursing care, and treatment.

Hawai'i's Opportunity for Active Living Advancement (HO'ĀLA): addressing childhood obesity through safe routes to school.

Increasing active transportation to and from school may reduce childhood obesity rates in Hawai'i. A community partnership was formed to address this issue in Hawai'i's Opportunity for Active Living Advancement (HO'ĀLA), a quasi-experimental study of active transportation in Hawai'i County. The purpose of this study was to determine baseline rates for active transportation rates to and from school and to track changes related to macro-level (statewide) policy, locally-based Safe Routes to School (SRTS) programs and bicycle and pedestrian planning initiatives expected to improve the safety, comfort and ease of walking and bicycling to and from school.

Hospital-acquired infections as patient safety indicators.

Transmission of infection in the hospital has been identified as a patient safety problem adversely affecting patients, visitors, and health care workers. Prevention of infection should not be limited to the hospital epidemiology staff but also must involve the entire multidisciplinary team, including nurses. This chapter reviews the literature related to patient safety of nursing-authored studies of infection control in the hospital.

Recognition of speech presented at soft to loud levels by adult cochlear implant recipients of three cochlear implant systems.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to conduct a large-scale investigation with adult recipients of the Clarion, Med-El, and Nucleus cochlear implant systems to (1) determine average scores and ranges of performance for word and sentence stimuli presented at three intensity levels (70, 60, and 50 dB SPL); (2) provide information on the variability of scores for each subject by obtaining test-retest measures for all test conditions; and (3) further evaluate the potential use of lower speech presentation levels (i.e., 60 and/or 50 dB SPL) in cochlear implant candidacy assessment.

Outcomes of cochlear implantation in children with auditory neuropathy.

Ten children who were diagnosed with auditory neuropathy were matched with ten children who were diagnosed with other etiologies. All twenty children received cochlear implants at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Various measures were used to compare the outcomes for the two groups.

Relationship of endogenous levels of sex hormones to cognition and depression in frail, elderly women.

Neuropsychological evaluations and sex hormone assays for 188 elderly, female nursing home residents (mean age: 87.8 years; standard deviation: 7.0 years) revealed inverse relationships for dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) blood levels and cognition scores based on the Mini-Mental State Exam and the Test for Severe Impairment, as well as for scores of the Immediate Recall, Copy, and Recognition tests of the Visual Reproduction subtest of the Wechsler Memory Scale-Revised (WMS-R; VR).

Overview of the nursing home litigation process.

An increasing number of nursing home litigations have been filed as a result of the growing nursing home population and laws regulating their care. Understanding the litigation process and developing an awareness of the issues examined by attorneys and experts for both the plaintiff and defense are important for nurses working in long-term care. Knowing the standards of care and the litigation process can prepare nurses to anticipate and successfully defend their positions.