Maternal Satisfaction with Healthcare after Perinatal Loss in Monochorionic Twin Pregnancy.

Introduction: The analysis of patients' satisfaction with healthcare is recognised as being useful in the evaluation of health outcomes and perceived quality of care. Little is known, however, about how the psychological status of women who experience perinatal complications may affect their perceived satisfaction with care.

Methods: We assessed healthcare satisfaction in 52 women who had undergone intrauterine surgery during a complicated monochorionic twin pregnancy and examined the influence that fetal loss and sociodemographic, clinical, and psychological factors had on the degree of satisfaction.

Emotional Effect of the Loss of One or Both Fetuses in a Monochorionic Twin Pregnancy.

Objective: To examine the psychological effect on women of the loss of one or both fetuses during a monochorionic twin pregnancy and to identify associated protective and risk factors.

Design: Descriptive, cross-sectional, correlational study.

Setting: Maternity unit of the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona, Spain.

Influence of farewell rituals and psychological vulnerability on grief following perinatal loss in monochorionic twin pregnancy.

Aim: The aim of this study is to analyze whether the absence of farewell rituals and previous psychological vulnerability are associated with the intensity of grief following perinatal loss in monochorionic twin pregnancy.

Method: The sample comprised 28 women who experienced perinatal loss following fetal surgery. Sociodemographic and clinical data and information about farewell rituals were collected through interview.

Pharmacokinetic modelling of cefotaxime and desacetylcefotaxime--a population study in 25 elderly patients.

Objective: To develop a pharmacostatistical model to simultaneously characterise the pharmacokinetics of cefotaxime and its main metabolite, desacetylcefotaxime, in elderly patients.

Methods: Cefotaxime, 1 g, was infused three times daily to 25 elderly patients, 66-93 years old. Cefotaxime and desacetylcefotaxime plasma concentrations (289 and 304 samples, respectively), along with demographic and physiological characteristics, were analysed using a population approach.

[Efficacy and toxicity of aminoglycoside therapy in the elderly: combined effect of both once-daily regimen and therapeutic drug monitoring].

Unlabelled: This study was aimed to compare with previous results (Grillot et al., 1994), the efficacy of amikacin adaptive optimal control in a geriatric hospital.

Patients: During six months, 32 patients (aged of 82 +/- 8 years) were included versus 51 during two years (aged of 80 +/- 5).