Stress ulcer prophylaxis for non-critically ill patients on a teaching service.

Rationale: Doctors frequently give non-critically ill patients unjustified stress ulcer prophylaxis (SUP). It is unknown if this practice also occurs during residency training.

Objective: To evaluate the pattern of SUP given to non-critically ill medical patients on the teaching service of an internal medicine residency programme.

[Injuries to the diaphragm (author's transl)].

A traumatic rupture of the diaphragm is nearly always accompanied by injuries to the intrathoracic and abdominal structures. As the symptoms arising from these injured organs generally predominate, the presence of a ruptured diaphragm is apt to remain unrecognized or to be diagnosed at a very late stage. If the diagnosis is made immediately after the accident surgical repair should follow promptly; if the rupture is of long standing (traumatic hernia) surgery should preferably be performed during a symptom-free interval.

[Diagnostic value of the hemagglutination inhibition reaction in Newcastle disease of hens].

Investigations were carried out using RPHA on 5299 blood serums, originating from 235 hen flocks vaccinated in four ways: Flox and orally with the vaccine strain La Sotta, intramusculary with Komarov's vaccine strain and by aerosol using the strains La Sotta and Komarov. Two hundred and eleven blood serums originating from 12 flocks, in which fowl pest was detected, were also investigated. Postinfection titer dynamics was followed in three flocks containing 20000 birds.