Publications by authors named "G A Popescu"
A Five-Bundle Intervention to Improve Blood Culture Use in a Tertiary Hospital in Romania.
Antibiotics (Basel)
November 2024
: The aims of this study were to evaluate the efficacy of a five-bundle intervention and to decrease the number of cases in which only one set of blood cultures is collected prior to starting antimicrobials. : The study group consisted of the two hospital wards that have the highest collection rate (120 blood cultures/1000 patient days and 121.4 blood cultures/1000 patient days, respectively), and the control group consisted of the other three adult wards.
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- A study in Romania revealed a growing prevalence of New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase (NDM)-producing Enterobacterales in hospitals, with 355 cases reported from 2018 to 2022.
- Analysis of 74 isolates over nearly two years identified four persistent multi-hospital clusters of these drug-resistant bacteria, demonstrating sustained transmission across multiple regions.
- The findings highlight the urgent need for enhanced infection control measures and improved national surveillance for carbapenem-resistant pathogens in healthcare systems across the EU/EEA.
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- - The paper highlights the increasing difficulty in maintaining access to both old and new antibiotics, leading to negative impacts on healthcare and a rise in antibiotic resistance due to the use of less effective alternatives.
- - It identifies four types of antibiotic unavailability—short-term shortages, long-term shortages, deregistrations, and lack of registration—explaining their causes, consequences, and potential solutions, supported by examples from Norway, Romania, and Ethiopia.
- - Understanding the specific type of antibiotic unavailability is crucial for finding effective solutions, as strategies like stockpiling may only be effective for certain circumstances and won't address every issue related to access.
This paper represents a retrospective study on 252 patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS), who received thrombolytic therapy between 2019-2023, in the Department of Neurology at the Emergency County Hospital in Craiova, Romania. We aimed to evaluate treatment complications and short-term outcomes of patients with AIS, treated with intravenous (i.v.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe purpose of this study is to examine the connection between child mortality in Eastern Europe and ecological footprint, urbanization, education, health expenditure, and industrialization. The study acknowledges the significance of understanding how these factors influence the infant mortality rates in this region from 1993 to 2022. The Grossman Health Outcome (H-O) model investigates the theoretical framework.
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