A point prevalence survey of hospital-acquired infections and antimicrobial use in a paediatric hospital in north-western Russia.

We carried out a one-day prevalence survey of hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) and antimicrobial use in February 2006 in a paediatric hospital in Arkhangelsk, north-western Russia. A total 472 patients aged less than 18 years old were included in the study, of which 395 (84%) had been inpatients in the hospital for at least 48 h on the study day. The overall prevalence of HAI amongst the latter group of patients was 17% [67/395; 95% confidence interval (CI): 13.

[Etiological and nosological structure of liver diseases (on autopsy data of clinics of I.M. Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy in 1988-1997)].

4908 autopsy protocols were analysed and liver pathology was found in 1.7% of cases. Alcoholic and viral diseases dominated among liver pathology cases, steatosis among alcoholic damages, cirrhosis among viral diseases, primary biliary cirrhosis among autoimmune diseases and hepatocellular carcinoma among malignant tumors.

[A statistical analysis of liver diseases (based on the autopsy data from the clinics of the I. M. Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy for 1978-1987)].

6170 autopsy protocols have been analysed and the conclusion is made that alcoholic liver cirrhosis is predominating in the structure of liver diseases. Viral liver cirrhosis is less important by its incidence than alcoholic one. Liver tumors are of importance against the background of alcoholic and viral cirrhosis.

[Tactile sensitivity as a part of the kinesthetic system (a comparative clinico-physiological approach)].

In experiments on healthy children as well as on children with inborn and postamputation stumps of the forearm, studies have been made of the relationship between the level of tactile sensitivity in the skin of the forearm and the level of its muscular motor activity; these studies were performed using focused ultrasound in children at the age of 7, 10 and 14 years. It was found that with the increase in motor activity of the forearm, irrespectively of the age, tactile thresholds decrease. The success of prosthetic appliance depends on the ratio between skin tactile sensitivity and motor activity of the forearm.