Alireza Fahimzad

[ 1 ] - A Prospective Study to Assess Vancomycin Serum Concentrations in Pediatric Patients with Current Dosing Guidelines

Concerns about increasing bacterial resistance to vancomycin, have caused the adult treatment guidelines to recommend higher trough concentrations based on the type and location of infectious disease. Although these recommendations are not specific to children, the values can be extrapolated. This prospective study was designed to evaluate efficacy of current vancomycin dosing recommendations t...

[ 2 ] - A Prospective Study to Assess Vancomycin Serum Concentrations in Pediatric Patients with Current Dosing Guidelines

Concerns about increasing bacterial resistance to vancomycin, have caused the adult treatment guidelines to recommend higher trough concentrations based on the type and location of infectious disease. Although these recommendations are not specific to children, the values can be extrapolated. This prospective study was designed to evaluate efficacy of current vancomycin dosing recommendations t...

[ 3 ] - The clinical comparison of the Pediatrics Assistants' skills score, before and after the executive rotational style

Introduction: Pediatrics assistants should have the same training program. Shahid Beheshti University of medical sciences has seven training hospital, however, there are no similar specialized departments in all of these hospitals. Therefore, it is necessary to develop identical rotational style in order to train assistants according curriculum. The aim of this study was to investigate and comp...

[ 4 ] - Frequency of MDR Acinetobacter baumannii and the Most Common OXA- type Genes in Multiple Drug-Resistant Strains Isolated from Patients in Tabriz Imam Reza Hospital

Background and purpose: Acinetobacter is a pathogen that could cause nosocomial infections. The present study aimed at determining Acinetobacter cases in clinical cultures of patients hospitalized in Tabriz Imam Reza Hospital to determine the frequency of the most common oxa genes causing drug resistance in these specimens. Materials and methods: In this descriptive cross-sectional study, cli...