Reigniting Intensive Care Unit Liberation.

Background: The Society of Critical Care Medicine has established guidelines to manage pain, sedation, delirium, immobility, family participation, and sleep disruption in the intensive care unit, a set of interventions known as the intensive care unit liberation (ABCDEF) bundle. Adherence to these guidelines has shown positive results.

Local Problem: In the intensive care units of a level I trauma academic teaching hospital in central Texas, the rate of bedside nursing staff adherence to the ABCDEF bundle was only 67.

A Novel Home-Based Medication Management Program and Its Influence on Hospitalization Rates among Home Health Care Recipients.

Patients do not take their medicine as prescribed 50% of the time, and of medication-related hospital admissions in the United States, 33% to 69% are due to poor medication adherence, at a cost of approximately $100 billion a year. Continue CareRx (CCRx) is a novel home-based medication management program that includes adherence packaging alongside medication reconciliation, review, and education by clinicians. We hypothesized that home health patients receiving the CCRx service may have a lower hospitalization rate than control home health patients.

Cognitive and physical impairment in spinal cord injury: A scoping review and call for new understanding.

Scoping review. To examine potential underlying mechanisms of cognitive and physical impairment in patients with spinal cord injury and identify current research gaps. A scoping review of the literature was conducted following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) extension for scoping reviews to identify primary studies that explored mechanisms of cognitive and/or physical impairment after spinal cord injury.

Arthroscopy and manipulation versus home therapy program in treatment of adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder: a prospective randomized study.

This study determined in a prospective manner if arthroscopic shoulder capsular release can decrease the duration of adhesive capsulitis symptoms when compared with a nonoperative home therapy program. Patients randomized to the operative group underwent arthroscopic capsular release and manipulation of the shoulder. Immediately after surgery they began the same stretching program as the nonoperative group, which consisted of terminal range of motion low-grade stretches twice daily for at least 15 minutes per session for 3 months.

Functional outcomes following single-event multilevel surgery of the upper extremity for children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy.

Background: Outcomes following single-event multilevel surgery of the upper extremity for children with cerebral palsy have not been well described in the literature. Since 1996, all children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy at our institution thought to be candidates for upper extremity surgery have had serial Shriners Hospital for Children Upper Extremity Evaluation performed for both clinical decision making and outcome assessment. The goal of the current study was to determine the functional outcomes, as described by the Shriners Hospital for Children Upper Extremity Evaluation, following single-event multilevel surgery of the upper extremity in children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy.