Publications by authors named "I Mora-Guzman"
We present the case of a 47-year-olded man with a spontaneous rupture of rectal cancer and Fournier's gangrene.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The objectives of the study were to investigate the organizational characteristics of acute care facilities worldwide in preventing and managing infections in surgery; assess participants' perception regarding infection prevention and control (IPC) measures, antibiotic prescribing practices, and source control; describe awareness about the global burden of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and IPC measures; and determine the role of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 pandemic on said awareness.
Methods: A cross-sectional web-based survey was conducted contacting 1432 health care workers (HCWs) belonging to a mailing list provided by the Global Alliance for Infections in Surgery. The self-administered questionnaire was developed by a multidisciplinary team.
The aim of this study was to identify risk factors for acquisition of intra-abdominal infections (IAI) caused by carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) in surgical patients. A matched case-control study was performed. We included all cases with CPE-related IAI acquired during admission to a general surgery department from January 2013 to December 2018, and they were matched with control subjects with IAI caused by non-resistant bacteria (ratio 1:3).
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- Early laparoscopic cholecystectomy (ELC) is the standard treatment for acute calculous cholecystitis (ACC), but it can lead to significant postoperative complications; this study aims to identify risk factors for these complications and create a predictive score.
- A multicentric analysis of 1868 ACC patients revealed that factors such as previous surgeries, diabetes, high bilirubin levels, and gallbladder perforation significantly increased the risk of complications post-surgery.
- The newly developed Chole-Risk Score categorizes patients based on these factors, showing a clear correlation between higher scores and increased complication rates, making it a useful tool for predicting outcomes in ACC surgeries.