Publications by authors named "Hassel Jimmy Jimenez"
Sepsis is a worldwide public health problem due to its high incidence and accompanying mortality, morbidity, and financial burden. It is a major cause of admission to paediatric intensive care units; despite advances in the diagnosis and treatment, both incidence and mortality are high in low-income and middle-income countries. There are several barriers in addressing the enormous burden of paediatric sepsis in these countries, which include: lack of data of incidence and mortality; unfamiliarity of sepsis by the lay public, leading to failure to seek care early, and by health professionals, leading to failure to treat emergently; and insufficient government funding for sepsis care programmes leading to inadequate staffing, material, and financial resources, and therefore, poor health systems.
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- VRE infections are a significant issue in hospitals, particularly concerning their resistance and potential spread to other bacteria.
- A study conducted in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) found that 18.6% of patients were colonized with VRE, with several key risk factors identified.
- These risk factors included prior hospitalizations, use of broad-spectrum antibiotics, and immunosuppressive drug use, suggesting that careful monitoring and antibiotic stewardship practices are essential in vulnerable pediatric populations.
Introduction: Paraguay is a bilingual country and knowledge of the guarani language is an important communication tool for the doctor- patient relationship.
Objective: To determine the degree of and the factors that influence the knowledge of the Guaraní language in medical students at a University Hospital in Paraguay.
Methods: Observational, cross-sectional, analytical study in which an anonymous questionnaire was applied to the final year medical students of a University Hospital of Paraguay.