Reducing the risks of wound consultation: adding digital images to verbal reports.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of digital images on the assessment and recommendations of a WOC nurse who was providing remote nurse-to-nurse consultations on home care patients with wounds.

Methods: In a descriptive comparative study, data were collected by home care nurses from a sample of 43 adult patients with a total of 89 wounds with various etiologies. To determine whether or not the addition of a digital photograph influenced the WOC nurse's assessment and recommendations, the WOC nurse first completed a wound assessment and recommendation form based on a verbal report from the home care nurse.

The use of digital images in evaluating homecare nurses' knowledge of wound assessment.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate homecare nurses' knowledge of wound assessment using digital images and case studies.

Design: A descriptive design was used.

Subjects And Setting: Subjects were a convenience sample of 33 registered nurses from a Washington, DC, metropolitan-based home health agency.

Morphological changes in the skin during experimental allergic encephalomyelitis and multiple sclerosis: bases for new diagnostic test.

Skin specimen from the medial malleolar area of patients with multiple sclerosis and guinea pigs with experimental allergic encephalomyelitis were examined by light and electron microscopy. Demyelination, inflammation, and dystrophic changes in peripheral nerves and skin correlating with clinical manifestations were revealed in both sclerosis and encephalomyelitis. Maximum changes were revealed in nerve-associated cells (Merkel cells), Langerhans cells reflecting inflammation intensity, and fibroblasts responsible for nerve integrity and resistance against external stimuli.

The moving, projected, annual total. A kinetic prognostic entity.

A simple, inexpensive method of prognostically calculating and graphically recording annual case loads of the various deaths investigated by today's medicolegal offices is presented. Graphic depiction of the numerical data provides a convenient way to compare current prognostications with the records of preceding years.