Diversity in osteopathic medical school admissions and the COMPASS program: an update.

In the United States, the 40 colleges of osteopathic medicine and 157 schools of allopathic medicine face challenges in recruiting candidates who are underrepresented in medicine (URiM), and gaps in racial disparity appear to be widening. In this commentary, the authors provide an analysis of the data collected from 8 years of conducting a URiM recruitment and welcoming social events. The event is sponsored by a student special interest group called Creating Osteopathic Minority Physicians Who Achieve Scholastic Success (COMPASS) at the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine - New York (TouroCOM-NY).

[Determination of blood ceftriaxone. Comparison of microbiological and HPLC methods].

108 serum samples in 27 patients were collected after the first, before the second, after and before the fifth dose of 2 g every 24 h and assayed for ceftriaxone by microbiological method and high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC). The statistical analysis of the results show a correlation coefficient equal to 0.95.

[Ceftriaxone and severe infections in medical resuscitation].

Ceftriaxone was used in 24 medical intensive care patients to treat 8 pulmonary infections, 12 septicaemias, 3 urinary tract infections, 1 meningitis. It was administered at a single intravenous dose of 2 g every 24 h. The therapy was successful, clinically and bacteriologically in 16 patients.

[Hemodialysis with a high permeability membrane in the treatment of encephalopathy of fulminant hepatitis].

Twenty-nine patients with fulminant hepatic failure and at least grade III encephalopathy were treated by haemodialysis with a polyacrylonitrile membrane. Aetiology was toxic in five patients, viral in eleven (2 due to hepatitis A virus and 9 presumed due to hepatitis B virus), not found in thirteen. Each patient was dialysed for 4 h every day, until he regained consciousness or died.

Metapramine overdose: report of two cases and analytical determinations.

Two metapramine overdoses due to deliberate ingestion are described. The analytical procedures for the determination of metapramine in biological specimens have been reported.