Publications by authors named "Sarah Burleigh"
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- A study compared the prevalence and distribution of pressure injuries (PIs) in COVID-19 patients using two prone positioning methods: "Face Down" and "Swimmers Position."
- Results showed that 76% of patients in the Face Down group developed at least one PI, significantly higher than the 45% in the Swimmers Position group.
- The findings suggest that the Swimmers Position leads to fewer pressure injuries and supports updated clinical guidelines favoring this approach for mechanically ventilated patients.
Background: End-of-life-care is often poor in individuals with dementia. Advanced care planning (ACP) has the potential to improve end-of-life care in dementia. Commonly ACP is completed in the last six months of life but in dementia there may be problems with this as decision-making capacity and ability to communicate necessarily decrease as the disease progresses.
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