[The FEV/VC ratio to define bronchial obstruction: Should we use a fixed ratio or the lower limit of normal?].

Introduction: While the screening of chronic obstructive lung diseases (COPD, asthma, etc.) constitutes a major public health issue in France and worldwide, simple spirometry appears currently as the key to meeting the challenge. Since description of the forced expiratory maneuver by Robert Tiffeneau in 1947, it has been admitted that the FEV/VC ratio permits diagnosis obstructive pulmonary diseases.

Nosocomial meningitis caused by multiresistant enterococcus as a life-threatening complication of pelvic injury: case report.

Bacterial meningitis after pelvic trauma has never been described. We recently treated a patient who developed, during the course of his hospitalization, multiresistant enterococcal meningitis after severe pelvic injury, including a comminutive sacral fracture. Dural tear may have been the main factor leading to secondary infection of the cerebrospinal fluid.