Staphylococcal infection in subdivided general surgical wards

Surgical Site Infections in General Surgical Wards at a Tertiary Care Hospital

Background: Surgical site infections are important cause of morbidity and mortality in admitted patients world over. Objectives: To determine the pattern of surgical site infections in General Surgical ward of a tertiary care hospital. Study type, settings and duration: Analytical cross-sectional study conducted at Department of General Surgery, Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, Islamabad...

Candidemia in non-ICU surgical wards: Comparison with medical wards

Candidemia acquired outside critical care or hematological areas has received much attention in recent years; however, data on candidemia in surgical departments are very scarce. Our objectives were to describe episodes of candidemia diagnosed in surgical wards and to compare them with episodes occurring in medical wards. We performed a post hoc analysis of a prospective, multicenter study impl...

Staphylococcal infection in hospitals.

Missed Addisonian crisis in surgical wards.

Three women were admitted to the surgical wards with acute gastro-intestinal symptoms and despite good clinical (pigmentation, hypotension) and biochemical (hyponatraemia, acidosis) evidence of Addisonian crisis had unnecessary investigations with delay in the diagnosis and appropriate management of this medical emergency. Clinicians should take careful note of the typical electrolyte upset see...

Antibacterial therapy in general medical wards.

Information from a comprehensive drug surveillance programme is analysed to provide details of antibacterial drug use in medical wards. Some 28% of patients received antibacterial therapy, usually for the treatment of respiratory or urinary tract infections. The agents most frequently prescribed were ampicillin, co-trimoxazole and tetracyclines. Overall, 11% of recipients experienced one or mo...