TY  - GEN
AB  - The quarterly infection control report, issued from the Quality Improvement Department  in the institution where the clinical inquiry will be carried out, identified an increase in the  infection rate after spine fusion surgery in the neuromuscular scoliosis population. The  nutritionist and one of the spine surgeons noted anecdotally that most of those same patients  were nutritionally depleted at the time of surgery, using weight as the assessing parameter. The  identified patients’ weights were at or below the fifth percentile. The question was raised that  perhaps these patients needed a preoperative nutritional assessment and intervention to better  prepare them for spine fusion and instrumentation surgery to prevent postoperative wound  infections.
AD  - Oregon Health and Science University
AU  - Huff-Slankard, Janie
DA  - 2009
DO  - 10.6083/m4rr1x0s
DO  - DOI
ID  - 472
KW  - Nursing
KW  - Nurse Practitioners
KW  - Nutrition Assessment
KW  - Neuromuscular Diseases
KW  - Child
KW  - Spinal Fusion
KW  - Nurse Anesthetists
KW  - Evidence-Based Nursing
KW  - Clinical Nursing Research
KW  - Advanced Practice Nursing
KW  - Surgical Wound Infection
KW  - Research
KW  - nutrition
KW  - children
KW  - evaluation
KW  - clinical inquiry report
KW  - case reports
KW  - midwives
L1  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/472/files/473_etd.pdf
L2  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/472/files/473_etd.pdf
L4  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/472/files/473_etd.pdf
LK  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/472/files/473_etd.pdf
N2  - The quarterly infection control report, issued from the Quality Improvement Department  in the institution where the clinical inquiry will be carried out, identified an increase in the  infection rate after spine fusion surgery in the neuromuscular scoliosis population. The  nutritionist and one of the spine surgeons noted anecdotally that most of those same patients  were nutritionally depleted at the time of surgery, using weight as the assessing parameter. The  identified patients’ weights were at or below the fifth percentile. The question was raised that  perhaps these patients needed a preoperative nutritional assessment and intervention to better  prepare them for spine fusion and instrumentation surgery to prevent postoperative wound  infections.
PB  - Oregon Health and Science University
PY  - 2009
T1  - A nutrition assessment of children with neuromuscular impairments undergoing spinal fusion  and instrumentation and frequencies of postoperative infections
TI  - A nutrition assessment of children with neuromuscular impairments undergoing spinal fusion  and instrumentation and frequencies of postoperative infections
UR  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/472/files/473_etd.pdf
Y1  - 2009
ER  -