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The superiority of a particular surgical-site preparation regimen in preventing surgical-site infection (SSI) has not been determined.
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In this study, 496 adults and adolescents in Malawi, with history of recent documented invasive pneumococcal disease, were administered PCV7 or placebo in a randomized, double-blind, controlled trial, and were followed for 798 person-years. Eighty-eight percent of patients were HIV-infected.
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Clinical laboratories in Massachusetts are required to submit to the state all isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae cultured from blood, cerebrospinal fluid, or other normally sterile body fluids from children < 18 years of age.
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The Veterans Health Administration maintains a national automated information system (DSS) that contains hospital discharge and outpatient data for the entire system.
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As recently discussed in Infectious Disease Alert (January 2010), chronic Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection has been described in solid-organ transplant recipients, and uncommonly in persons with HIV.
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Colistin, a 50-year-old polymyxin antibiotic that recently has been reintroduced to treat multidrug-resistant hospital-acquired Acinetobacter or Pseudomonas pneumonia, can cause acute neuromuscular weakness and precipitate acute hypercapnic respiratory failure, as illustrated by this case report.
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This non-randomized, prospective trial demonstrated that passive leg raising can be used to predict fluid responsiveness in non-intubated, spontaneously breathing patients with severe sepsis or acute pancreatitis.
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Natriuretic peptide levels (BNP, NT-proBNP) are of prognostic value in general populations, but whether they add information to other known risk factors for cardiovascular outcomes is less clear.
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In this study, 847 patients with peritonsillar abscess (PTA) admitted to Aarhus University hospitals from 2001-2006 were included in this retrospective study.
