[Elevated blood glucose level as a risk factor of hospital-acquired pneumonia among patients treated in the intensiv care unit (ICU)].

Hospital acquired-pneumonia is the most frequently occurring hospital-acquired infection in intensive care units (ICU). The study group consisted of 233 patients treated over 12 months in the ICU of the 1st Department of General Surgery and Gastroenterological Surgery Clinics, University Hospital in Krakow. Patients were divided in two groups: experimental--consisting of 92 patients with hospital-acquired pneumonia, and control--consisting of 141 patients without the disease.

[Etiological bacterial factors of respiratory system infections in the Intensive Care Unit Surgery Clinic].

Pneumonia is the most frequently occurring hospital-acquired infection in Intensive Care Units (ICU). The frequency of bacteriological pathogenic factors in the surgical ICU and efficiency of empiric antibiotic therapy used in ICU was assessed. The study included 239 ICU patients in the I Department of General Surgery and Gastroenterological Surgery Clinics of Jagiellonian University Hospital in 2006 year.

The impact of immunostimulating nutrition on infectious complications after upper gastrointestinal surgery: a prospective, randomized, clinical trial.

Background And Aim: Immunomodulating nutrition is supposed to reduce the number of complications and lengthen of hospital stay during the postoperative period in patients after major gastrointestinal surgery. The aim of the study was to assess the clinical effect of immunostimulatory enteral and parenteral nutrition in patients undergoing resection for gastrointestinal cancer in the group of well-nourished patients.

Material And Methods: Between June 1, 2001, and December 31, 2005, a group of 214 well-nourished patients was initially assessed (150 men, 64 women, mean age 61.

Clinical presentation of extraintestinal infections caused by non-typhoid Salmonella serotypes among patients at the University Hospital in Cracow during an 7-year period.

The most characteristic finding in non-typhoid salmonella (NTS) infection is acute food related outbreaks of gastroenteritis, which is usually benign and self-limiting. However, more serious extraintestinal findings, such as bacteraemia and focal infections localized to any organ may appear. The objective of this paper is to describe the most important characteristic of the extraintestinal infections due to NTS serotypes observed in University Hospital, in Cracow between January 2000 and December 2006.

Standard and immunomodulating enteral nutrition in patients after extended gastrointestinal surgery--a prospective, randomized, controlled clinical trial.

Background & Aim: The immunomodulating enteral diets are intended to reduce the incidence of postoperative complications in surgical patients. The aim of the study was to assess the clinical effect of such nutrition.

Materials And Methods: Between June 2004 and September 2007 196 well-nourished patients undergoing resection for pancreatic and gastric cancer were randomized in double-blind manner to receive postoperative enteral nutrition with immunostimulating diet (IMEN group) or standard oligopeptic diet (SEN group).

[Age as a prognostic factor in colorectal cancer treatment].

Aging of the population leads to increasing the numbers of patients requiring surgical interventions. Though highest incidence of colorectal cancer occurs in the age range between 60-70 years, the incidence of colorectal cancer in the age group below 40 years has been also increasing. In this age group the course of the disease and prognosis are different than in the patients over 60 years of age.