OBJECTIVES To evaluate antibiotic consumption in the pediatric wards of Emilia-Romagna Region, from 2004 to 2011, with a focus on the antibiotics reserved to the most serious infections, and to analyse the ADRs reported for antibiotics by the pediatric wards of Emilia-Romagna hospitals. METHODS Reference population was represented by all the patients (0-14 years old) admitted to the pediatric...

Background. Malnutrition in children has serious health and economic consequences. We studied documentation of malnutrition, actual prevalence, and treatment given in children admitted to surgical wards. Methods. Retrospective study of 154 patients aged <5 yrs admitted to general surgical, orthopedic, and otorhinolaryngology wards. Records were evaluated for completeness of data, way of documen...

Acute pancreatitis is one of the common encountered disorders in common surgical practice. In recent times management has changed dramatically with majority of decisions like role of antibiotics, use of Ryle’s tube, nutrition etc. Ranson’s and APACHE II scoring systems are the two major scoring systems to predict the severity of disease, but the efficacy between the two scoring systems still re...

Abstract Aim Blood cultures are an important practice when patients spike temperatures, allowing treatment to be targeted and rationalised. However, often it is missed or forgotten about a patient unwell. The aims of this project were: look at the rate blood being taken after patient’s spiked temperatures try improve on these rates with education. Method All ward had their observation charts ex...

The development of minimally invasive surgical te­ chniques in the f ield of urology is dynamic and has gained immense momentum recently. The endourology section of Korean Journal of Urology (KJU) has focused its efforts on introducing these novel methods and their clinical results to our readers as quickly as possible. Art­ icles on robotic surgery were published as early as in 2006 and many m...

background vancomycin-resistant enterococci (vre) are the most common nosocomial pathogen worldwide. colonization with vre can lead to serious infection, some of which e.g. vre sepsis can be fatal. because vre are dangerous important pathogens, we aimed to determine the prevalence of vre among patients admitted in infectious, icu and surgery wards in a referral teaching hospital in isfahan, ira...

Planning discharge from hospital following microvascular free-tissue surgery can be complex and challenging. involves the patient, carers, multiple health professionals. Poor communication expectations delay or give a suboptimal process. It was hypothesised that prompt-list modelled along principals of Patient Concerns Inventory (PCI) could help in planning. The aim this study to define items f...

Objective: To identify which patients benefit from chest reopening after cardiac arrest. Setting: Cardio-thoracic hospital undertaking full range of adult cardio-thoracic surgery. Methods: In-hospital arrests were prospectively audited over a 6-year period. Information was collected for every patient whose chest was reopened following cardiac arrest: location of arrest, type of arrest, specialt...

Fast-tracking in cardiac care refers to the complex intervention including early extubation, during anesthesia, mobilization and hospital discharge reduce perioperative morbidity, costs, length of stay intensive unit hospital. This review was designed evaluate extubation protocols, differences late safety efficacy among patients surgical after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. The an...