[Carbapenems (thienam and Meronem). Their clinical and economic efficacy].

The authors describe 229 cases of carbapenem use in intensive care wards. Tienam was used in 205 cases since 1993, meronem in 24 cases since 1996. There were 149 men and 80 women aged 15-76 years (mean age 46.

[General and local antibiotic treatment with ceftriaxone of suppurative-septic diseases and complications].

A third-generation cephalosporin, Ceftriaxone, was used in intensive care of patients subjected to elective and urgent surgery in the Regional Clinical Hospital, St. Petersburg. A total of 105 patients were divided in 4 groups: 1) a course of ceftriaxone in combination with aminoglycosides started before the intervention; 2) the same, with the disease course complicated by peritonitis; 3) patients with neurosurgical diseases and brain injuries complicated by secondary meningoencephalitis; and 4) abdominal surgical patients in whom the severity of illness was determined by the abdominal process of different localization.