Publications by authors named "David Straiton"
Background: Restraint is widely practised within inpatient mental health services and is considered a higher-risk procedure for patients and staff. There is a sparsity of evidence in respect of the efficacy of personal protective equipment (PPE) used during restraint for reducing risk of infection.
Methods: A series of choreographed restraint episodes were used to simulate contact contamination in research participants playing the roles of staff members and a patient.
Introduction: We report the first case to our knowledge where an ascending colorectal tumour presented as a necrotising lower leg infection.
Case Presentation: We describe the unusual presentation of a previously unknown caecal carcinoma in a 69-year-old Caucasian man, which presented as a rapidly spreading limb infection due to a perforated caecal adenocarcinoma. This case presented a diagnostic dilemma and we document the investigation and management in our patient and compare this to the current published literature.