Ventilator-associated pneumonia by Weeksella virosa: case report.

Background: Weeksella virosa pneumonia is an infection that has been described as a healthcare-associated infection. This is a rare gram-negative anaerobic bacterium associated with the use of mechanical ventilation for a long period of time and is more frequent in immunosuppressed patients. This is the first case reported in the state of Veracruz and the second in Mexico.

[Reinsertion to the work in workers with partially permanent disability for hand injury].

Background: Hand injuries resulting from accidents at work are one of the main causes of disability in workers. Every worker ruled with Partial Permanent Disability must legally be reinstated to the same workplace.

Objective: To know the prevalence of reintegration and causes of non-reintegration into workers with Partial Permanent Disability due to hand injuries.

[Cost-effectiveness of local steroid combined with therapeutic exercise in subacromial impingement syndrome].

Background: The most common cause of injury is shoulder impingement syndrome. Management includes physical therapy, analgesics, steroids and surgery. The aim of the study was to determine the cost-effectiveness of using steroids combined with therapeutic exercise at home in the chronic impingement syndrome.

[Neonatal Hearing Screening and Early Intervention, a screening program to evaluate all infants to identify the hearing impaired].

Background: Neonatal Hearing Screening and Early Intervention (NHSEI) is a screening program to evaluate all infants and identify those with hearing impairment. The objective of this work was to determine the factors associated with hearing loss in NHSEI program.

Methods: Analytical cross-sectional study was performed.

[Early diagnostic accuracy of the O'Sullivan test in gestational diabetes].

Objective: to assess the specificity and sensibility of the O'Sullivan test for gestational diabetes in early pregnancy.

Methods: a pilot study in 50 women with low-risk of pregnancy, without history of alteration of glucose was done. The O'Sullivan test consisted in the administration of 50 g of glucose; glycemia was measured 60 minutes after, between weeks 14 and 23 and between weeks 24 and 28 of pregnancy.

[Demographic factors and comorbidity associated to prehypertension].

Background: prehypertension is the category established in JNC-7, which designates the individuals that present diastolic blood pressure of 80-89 mm Hg and systolic blood pressure of 120-139 mm Hg, and it is associated to high rates of cardiovascular disease. The purpose of the study was to identify prevalence rates and their correlation with sociodemographic factors and comorbidity in a sample of a population of Veracruz, Mexico.

Methods: a cross-sectional and representative survey was chosen by means of probability sampling.

[Validation of an instrument to measure the clinical aptitude of the pregraduated intern attention of the diabetic patient with chronic complications in home].

Objective: To validate an instrument to evaluate the clinic aptitude of the pregraduate intern in the integral attention of the diabetic patient with chronic complications at home.

Methods: A comparative cross-sectional study; 114 pregraduate interns from five medical units were included to determine the clinic aptitude by an instrument with five real clinical cases of diabetic patients. Seven clinical indicators and 175 statements were used.

[Quality life in climateric women with and without hormonal replacement therapy?].

Objective: To compare quality of life in climacterical women with and without hormone replacement therapy.

Material And Methods: A cross-sectional analytical study was carried out in the Family Medicine Unit number 61 in Veracruz, Veracruz. There were chosen 102 women between 40 and 60 years old.