Microbiological sentinel events at a neurological hospital: a retrospective cohort study.

The purpose of this study is to describe the epidemiological surveillance of microbiological sentinel events (SEs) carried out between 2012 and 2014 at the Neurological Hospital Carlo Besta, Milano, Italy. The setting is inpatient care with multidrug-resistant infections. The aim of the procedure is to formalize the management mode, reporting and transmission of SEs.

Electroacupuncture is not effective in chronic painful neuropathies.

Objective:   To investigate the analgesic efficacy of electroacupuncture (EA) in patients with chronic painful neuropathy.

Design:   Double-blind, placebo-controlled, cross-over study. Inclusion criteria were diagnosis of peripheral neuropathy, neuropathic pain (visual analog scale > 4) for at least 6 months, and stable analgesic medications for at least 3 months.

Posterior fossa surgery in the sitting position in a pregnant patient with cerebellopontine angle meningioma.

Primary brain tumours and pregnancy rarely occur together; meningioma and pregnancy is rarer still. We describe a 30-yr-old woman in the 25th week of pregnancy who underwent surgery in the sitting position for a large cerebellopontine angle meningioma that was compressing and displacing the pons and medulla. The surgical procedure and postoperative period were uneventful.