Pressure injuries in elderly with acute myocardial infarction

Klara Komici,Dino Franco Vitale,Dario Leosco,Angela Mancini,Graziamaria Corbi,Leonardo Bencivenga,Alessandro Mezzani,Bruno Trimarco,Carmine Morisco,Nicola Ferrara,Giuseppe Rengo

Pressure injuries in elderly with acute myocardial infarction

2017

Klara Komici
Dino Franco Vitale
Dario Leosco
Angela Mancini
Graziamaria Corbi
Leonardo Bencivenga
Alessandro Mezzani
Bruno Trimarco
Carmine Morisco
Nicola Ferrara
Giuseppe Rengo

Objectives To assess pressure injury (PI) incidence among patients hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in an intensive coronary care unit (ICCU) and to detect the impact of specific risk factors on the development of PI in this clinical setting.

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Medicine
Diabetes mellitus
Electrocardiography in myocardial infarction
Pressure injury
Internal medicine
Myocardial infarction
Cardiology
Prospective cohort study
Receiver operating characteristic
Coronary care unit
Logistic regression
Odds ratio
Ejection fraction

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