[Peripheral polyneuropathy after heat stroke].

The authors report the case of a woman who developed a peripheral polyneuropathy after heat stroke. All the classical aetiologies of neuropathy were excluded. The final diagnostic was residual peripheral neuropathy provoked by heat stroke.

[Organization of an operational site. Comparison of the durations of intervention planned and real].

Objective: To improve planning of our operational site by comparing the durations of intervention scheduled by the surgeons and the real durations of occupation of room of intervention, surgical procedure and surgical operation.

Study Design: Prospective study carried out of December 8, 2003 to February 27, 2004.

Patients And Methods: Anaesthetic and surgical times of the interventions of visceral and gynaecological surgery were raised.

Case report: combination artemether-lumefantrine and haemolytic anaemia following a malarial attack.

A case of a patient who was admitted to hospital in Paris, France, in February 2001 with autoimmune haemolytic anaemia, probably due to artemether-lumefantrine therapy, is presented. Such a complication has previously been observed in patients receiving drugs containing aryl-amino-alcohols but never before in a patient receiving lumefantrine and may be associated with the increase in episodes of blackwater fever seen in recent years.

[Severe pneumococcal meningitis and ceftriaxone allergy].

We report the case of a 51-year-old man with an allergy to amoxicillin/acid clavulanique who presented with Streptococcus pneumoniae meningitis. Initial treatment consisted of an association of antibiotics including ceftriaxone. Six days after treatment was initiated the patient developed skin reaction and the diagnosis of allergy to ceftriaxone was established by the dosage of specific IgE.