Publications by authors named "V F King"
Background: Nutrition interventions commenced in ICU and continued through to hospital discharge have not been definitively tested in critical care to date. To commence a program of research, we aimed to determine if a tailored nutrition intervention delivered for the duration of hospitalisation delivers more energy than usual care to patients initially admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
Methods: A multicentre, unblinded, parallel-group, phase II trial was conducted in twenty-two hospitals in Australia and New Zealand.
Background: Growing awareness of social inequities and injustices in education highlights the urgent need to address harmful mechanisms, policies, and norms within health education curricula and systems.
Purpose: This study examines inclusivity and exclusivity content in four fundamental nursing textbooks and contributes to the broader discourse on fostering equitable health education.
Methods: A Directed Qualitative Content Analysis on 32 chapters from four fundamental nursing textbooks was systematically conducted.
Article Synopsis
- Critically ill patients in Australia and New Zealand often don't meet energy and protein targets with oral nutrition, especially compared to those who start enteral or parenteral nutrition in ICU.
- The study analyzed data from 409 patients across 44 hospitals to compare outcomes, focusing on energy delivery and nutrition assessment during hospital stays.
- Results showed that patients on oral nutrition had lower energy and protein intake, fewer invasive interventions, and received less nutrition assessment compared to those who switched to enteral or parenteral nutrition.
Article Synopsis
- Panniculectomy has a high complication rate, with up to 56% of patients experiencing issues like wound healing problems, prompting the need for optimizing preoperative conditions.
- A study analyzed 1,472 patients, looking at factors like preoperative serum albumin and BMI, finding that lower albumin levels and higher BMI were linked to increased risks of bleeding and wound infections.
- Specifically, a 1 g/dL drop in albumin raised the odds of bleeding by 1.85 times and wound infection by 5.03 times, indicating the importance of monitoring albumin levels before surgery to potentially reduce complications.