BACKGROUND The purpose of the study is to compare the clinico-microbiological profile and treatment outcome of in-house vs referred cases of post cataract surgery endophthalmitis in a tertiary eye care facility in South India. METHODS The clinical records of 50 culture-positive cases each of in-house (group A) and referred (group B) post cataract surgery endophthalmitis were analyzed. The man...

The introduction of a chlorine atom to a carbon center in an enantioselective manner via conventional C-Cl bond formation is difficult. Here we report a new approach to this class of tertiary alkyl chlorides with high optical purities. Instead of forming a new C-Cl bond, our approach involves carbene-catalyzed desymmetrization of 2-chloro-1,3-diols as the key step to set up the chiral carbon ce...

Sex 0.91 (0.64–1.29) .59 Source of admission (community or hospital) 0.99 (0.62–1.57) .97 Duration of hospital stay at time of swab collection 1.02 (0.64–1.60) .95 Hospitalization during the previous 6 months 2.48 (1.70–3.63) !.001 Hospitalization during the previous 12 months 2.27 (1.57–3.80) !.001 Transferred from another healthcare facility 0.79 (0.50–1.24) .30 Diabetes mellitus 1.63 (1.14–2...

Background. Hospital rooms of inpatients with Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) can become contaminated with this major pathogen; unless adequately disinfected, rooms can serve as a reservoir where subsequent patients hospitalized in the same room can also become infected with C. difficile (CD). It was incidentally noted that a patient acquired severe CDI while in a room in our hospital tha...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the ability of a regionalized system to safely transfer patients requiring admission from a referral center to either regional or community hospitals. DESIGN Cohort study of children requiring admission. Following transfer, a questionnaire was administered to eligible caregivers. Subsequent emergency department (ED) use was assessed by comparing children who were transfe...

was conducted to assess whether a new color-coding method for measuring acetaminophen doses reduces medicationdosing errors. The study enrolled parents of children aged 3 months to 12 years who were seen for nonemergent care visits in the pediatric emergency department of a tertiary care center. One hundred one parents were assigned to either a color-coded dosing group or a conventional dosing ...

OBJECTIVE To find out the prevalence of Burnout syndrome (BS) in Saudi nurses. METHODS This is a cross-sectional study involving 60 female Saudi nurses in the workforce of King Fahd University Hospital, Al-Khobar, which is a tertiary care center for the eastern province. Between May and August 2009, Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) individual-based questionnaire was distributed after modificat...

We report three patients with corneal bee sting at our tertiary care center in a three-year period starting from 2014 to 2016. All patients sustained a bee sting injury to the cornea. All patients received early preoperative topical antibiotics, topical cycloplegic and intensive topical steroids. However, the timing of the initial presentation, the duration, and the location of the retained sti...

OBJECTIVE Antimicrobial prophylaxis has been demonstrated to lower the incidence of postoperative infection in nearly all types of surgery. The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) guideline summarizes current data on the appropriate use of antibiotic for surgical prophylaxis. The objective of this study was to assess and audit the use of antibiotics in a tertiary care center ac...

This is a cross sectional study, conducted in 45 pregnant women coming for antenatal check ups in the eastern regional hospitals in Nepal. Hamilton -Depression Scale (HAM-d) was applied after initial psychiatry work up to all women who were selected for the interview. Analysis revealed about half of the pregnant women having some form of depression. Life events (e.g. chronic illness in the fami...