Influence of Nutrition Status and Compression Therapy on Venous Ulcer Healing: A Systematic Review.

Objective: To review the literature to determine whether compression therapies and nutrition status influence venous ulcer healing.

Data Source: A systematized bibliographic review was carried out by searching PubMed, Scopus, and Cochrane databases for studies published between 2015 and 2020, using descriptors in Spanish and English.

Study Selection: After establishing the research question and applying the filters based on inclusion and exclusion criteria, 114 articles were found.

Concordance between Pressure Platform and Pedigraph.

Objectives: Determine the concordance between two methods of obtaining the plantar footprint (pedigraph and pressure platform).

Methods: A descriptive, cross-sectional, observational study of prevalence was carried out in the social center of Cariño (Coruña), Spain ( 65 participants). Older people without amputations or the presence of dysmetria were included.

Pain assessment and management in the newborn: A systematized review.

Background: Neonatal pain has been underdiagnosed due to several false beliefs.

Aim: To determine the status of neonatal pain in newborns who are admitted to intensive care units.

Methods: Different databases were searched.

Nosocomial Infection Outbreak due to SARS-COV-2 in a Hospital Unit of Particularly Vulnerable Patients.

To report a COVID-19 outbreak among workers and inpatients at a medical ward for especially vulnerable patients. Descriptive study of a nosocomial COVID-19 outbreak registered in March-April 2020 at medical ward of onco-hematological patients in an Spanish hospital. Confirmed cases were hospitalized patients, healthcare and non-healthcare workers who tested positive by PCR on a nasopharyngeal swab.

Nomogram and Validity of a Model for Predicting Malnutrition in Patients on Liver Transplant Lists.

Background: Malnutrition is associated with increased morbimortality in liver transplant patients, and it is important to identify factors related to nutritional status in these patients.

Aims: Determine variables associated with malnutrition and create a nomogram in liver transplant candidates.

Methods: Cross-sectional study (n = 110).

Concordance among methods of nutritional assessment in patients included on the waiting list for liver transplantation.

Background: The aim of the present study was to determine the extent of malnutrition in patients waiting for a liver transplant. The agreement among the methods of nutritional assessment and their diagnostic validity were evaluated.

Methods: Patients on the waiting list for liver transplantation (n = 110) were studied.

Green chromatography determination of fatty acid methyl esters in biodiesel.

This work proposes a green, simple and rapid chromatographic methodology for separation and determination of a group of 13 fatty acids methyl esters (FAMEs) by using a capillary gas chromatography with a flame ionization detector. The method was successfully applied for the determination of FAMEs in biodiesel samples from commercial and waste cooking oils, synthesized by homogeneous catalysis. Detection and quantification limits were in the μg L(-1) level.

Assessment of nutritional status and health-related quality of life before and after liver transplantation.

Background: Patients with chronic liver disease frequently suffer from malnutrition, together with a decline in their health-related quality of life. This study was carried out with the aim of evaluating the nutritional status, complications of medical and surgical care, anxiety, health-related quality of life and dependence level on basic and instrumental activities of daily living in pre- and post-liver transplant patients.

Methods/design: A prospective observational study with follow-up of patients on the waiting list for liver transplants who subsequently received a transplant at the University Hospital Complex in A Coruña during the period 2012-2014 (n = 110).