Characteristics of elderly patients attended in an emergency room due to falls.

Objective: To describe the characteristics of elderly patients attended in a teaching hospital emergency room due to falls.

Method: Descriptive, quantitative, cross-sectional study performed at a hospital emergency room. The data was collected in November 2017, considering the medical records of 1.

Lower limb wounds in diabetic and non-diabetic patients: survival analysis.

Objective: To evaluate the survival of wounds in lower limbs of diabetic and non-diabetic patients.

Method: Retrospective cohort study of patients with lower limb ulcers treated at a specialized center between 2011 and 2013. Outcome: healing of lower limb injuries in days.

Factors associated with the incidence of pressure ulcer during hospital stay.

Objective: Estimating the incidence rate of pressure ulcers and verifying factors associated with this occurrence in a cohort of hospitalized patients.

Method: This is a cohort study in which the considered outcome was the time until pressure ulcer occurrence. Estimated effect of the variables on the cumulative incidence ratio of the outcome was performed using the Cox proportional hazards model.

[Risk assessment for pressure ulcer in critical patients].

Bedridden patients are in risk to developing pressure ulcers and represent a priority group to be studied to identify this condition. To reach this goal, specific instruments are used to assess this problem. The objective of this study was to analyze the risk factors to developing pressure ulcers in adult patients hospitalized in ICUs.

[Factors associated to pressure ulcers in patients at adult Intensive Care Units].

The objective of this a cross-sectional analytical study was to estimate the occurrence of pressure ulcers and their associated factors in adult ICUs in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The sample consisted of 142 patients aged 18 or older, admitted before midnight of the day prior to data collection, from a total of 316 beds distributed in 22 ICUs. Presence of at least one pressure ulcer per patient was 35.

Wound-healing activity of a proteolytic fraction from Carica candamarcensis on experimentally induced burn.

Carica candamarcensis is a species from the Caricaceae family whose immature fruit contains latex with large amounts of cysteine proteinases. In prior studies, we isolated two of these enzymes displaying mitogenic activity when incubated with L929 fibroblastic cells. One of the fractions containing these enzymes (P1G10) was shown to enhance wound healing of skin and to accelerate healing of chemically induced gastric ulcer.