Costs and renumeration of osteomyelitis treatment involving free flaps: implications of return to theatre.

: This study aimed to define the costs of surgical management of chronic osteomyelitis where free tissue transfer was required in addition to debridement of bone, particularly the increased costs incurred by a return to theatre. We hypothesised that there would be a significantly greater cost when patients required re-exploration for vascular compromise. : We retrospectively analysed the costs of a consecutive series of sixty patient episodes treated at the Bone Infection Unit in Oxford from 2012 to 2015.

Ebola virus disease: Awareness among dental students in Hungary.

Introduction: The Ebola epidemic has claimed thousands of lives in Africa, and there has been a mounting pressure on the healthcare systems around the globe to prepare for the showing up of patients infected with this virus. Junior clinicians are at the forefront of medical teams, often coming into contact with patients first, during clerking and admissions. This study assesses the level of knowledge of Ebola virus disease (EVD) among dental students at Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.

Time to detection in liquid culture of sputum in pulmonary MDR-TB does not predict culture conversion for early discharge.

Objectives: UK guidelines advise that patients with pulmonary MDR-TB are isolated in hospital until the results of sputum cultures are negative (culture conversion), typically after 42 days of incubation with no growth. MDR-TB patients may be isolated ≥42 days longer than is necessary for public safety, which has major implications for patients and hospitals. Our objective was to determine whether analysis of time to detection (TTD) in liquid culture could predict the earliest safe discharge date of MDR-TB patients.