Improvement of therapeutic results in bacteremias due to the "resistant" organisms, staphylococci and enterococci, can best be achieved by a critical analysis of current concepts and adherence to certain fundamental principals. Experience with four successfully treated cases of this group of gram positive bacteremias is presented and specific therapeutic recommendations are set forth. T HE BACT...

introduction lung herniation following blunt chest trauma is extremely rare and only a few hundred cases of this pathology have been reported in the english language medical literature. this type of lung hernia is divided into intercostal, parasternal, or supraclavicular subtypes based on the exact location of the chest wall defect. traumatic intercostal lung hernia is even more uncommon. delay...

anti n-methyl-d-aspartate receptor (nmdr) encephalitis has been recognized as the most frequent autoimmune encephalitis in children after acute demyelinating encephalomyelitis (adem).however due to the variable the variable clinical presentation, the paucity of specific finding on standard laboratory and radiological investigation remains under recognized. first discribed in 2005, most commonly...

With the widespread adoption of smartphones and Facebook, mobile users today have an increasing number of ways to communicate about their location; the practice of “checking in”, broadcasting one’s location to one’s network of friends, is one such way. Previous research has indicated that the social sharing of location information in mobile social media may have significant consequences, for in...