Reducing the Pressure: Improving the Safety of Adult Inpatients at an Urban Hospital by Reducing Pressure Injury Incidence.

Approximately 2.5 million hospital visits in the United States are due to pressure injuries (PIs), costing $11 billion and resulting in 60,000 deaths annually. The objective of the study is to decrease the incidence of PIs in a hospital setting using Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendations, Wounds (SBARW) report sheets, turn clocks, and team engagement in a nurse-led quality improvement initiative.

Spot Urine Sodium as Triage for Effective Diuretic Infusion in an Ambulatory Heart Failure Unit.

Background: Admission for diuresis remains a common and costly event in patients with advanced heart failure (HF). We tested whether spot urine sodium could identify patients likely to respond to ambulatory diuretic infusion without hospitalization.

Methods And Results: We prospectively followed 176 consecutive patients with advanced heart failure receiving intravenous furosemide for congestion in an ambulatory clinic.

Intravenous Diuretic Therapy for the Management of Heart Failure and Volume Overload in a Multidisciplinary Outpatient Unit.

Objectives: This study sought to evaluate the effectiveness of intravenous (IV) diuretic treatment for volume management in heart failure (HF).

Background: Limited data exist regarding IV diuretics for the outpatient treatment of volume overload in HF patients.

Methods: We analyzed 60 consecutive patients with chronic HF and clinical evidence of worsening congestion who received a bolus and 3-h IV infusion of furosemide at an outpatient HF clinic.

Identification of a New Waitea circinata Variety Causing Basal Leaf Blight of Seashore Paspalum.

Seashore paspalum (Paspalum vaginatum) is a saline-tolerant, warm-season turfgrass species popular for golf course use in tropical and subtropical climates. A new variety of Waitea circinata (proposed as W. circinata var.

First Report of Root Rot Caused by Binucleate Rhizoctonia Anastomosis Group F on Musa spp.

A research program was initiated at the University of Georgia in 2003 to identify banana cultivars suitable for production in the coastal and southern areas of the state. During a root disease survey conducted in October 2007 on bananas (Musa spp.) grown at the University of Georgia Bamboo Farm and Coastal Gardens in Savannah, GA, root lesions and root rot were observed on banana cvs.