Diarrhea during critical illness: a multicenter cohort study.

Purpose: To study the incidence, predictors, and outcomes of diarrhea during the stay in the intensive care unit (ICU).

Methods: Prospective cohort of consecutive adults in the ICU for > 24 h during a 10-week period across 12 intensive care units (ICUs) internationally. The explored outcomes were: (1) incidence of diarrhea, (2) Clostridioides difficile-associated diarrhea (CDAD); (3) ICU and hospital length of stay (LOS) and mortality in patients with diarrhea.

Validation of APACHE II and SAPS II scales at the intensive care unit along with assessment of SOFA scale at the admission as an isolated risk of death predictor.

Background: Disease's severity classification systems are applied to measure the risk of death and to choose the best therapy for patients admitted to intensive care unit (ICU). The aim of the study was to verify risk of death calculated with APACHE II (Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II), SAPS II (Simplified Acute Physiology Score II), SOFA (Sequential Organ Failure Assessment) and evaluate correlation between these scores. The usefulness of SOFA score as a sole scale also was assessed.

[Unusual pathology of submandibular gland--Küttner tumor].

Küttner tumor (chronic sclerosing sialadenitis) is a chronic, benign lesion of salivary gland. Its clinical course resamble malignant process. Authors report two typical cases of CSS affecting submandibular gland.

[Adenoma polymorphum localised out of salivary glands in material of ENT Department MSS Hospital between 2007-2009 - two cases].

The adenoma polymorphum is benign salivary glands tumor. The most common location of occurrence is the parotid followed by the minor salivary glands in which the palate, upper lip and buccal mucosa are most commonly affected. It is a demarcated from the surronding, painless, capsulated and slow growing mass.

[A sudden sensorineural hearing loss caused by a thunderbolt].

The authors present a case of 12-years old girl with sudden sensorineural hearing loss caused by computer adapter explosion during the storm. She denied any tinnitus and vertigo. She was admitted immediately to ENT Ward.