[Elderly patients at a medical department. Their functional capacity upon admission as a predictor of a long stay in the hospital].

Data were recorded on mental function, urinary continence, ability to dress, falls, mobility, and vision in 340 patients aged 75 and over on admission to a medical department. Three months later, 213 patients had been discharged, 41 were still in hospital, 64 had died, and 22 had been transferred to another hospital or returned to a nursing home. Impairment of any of the functions tested, except vision, was associated with prolonged length of stay.

Concentration of cefuroxime in cerebrospinal fluid in patients with bacterial meningitis.

10 adults with bacterial meningitis were given 1.5 g cefuroxime intravenously 4 time daily in addition to the normal antibiotic treatment. CSF levels of cefuroxime ranged from 1.