Quality of anthropometric measurements in Spanish Intensive Care Units (The CAMIES Study).

Introduction: Real body weight and height are essential data to be obtained in all critically ill patients (CIP), due to their influence in the designing of therapies and monitoring. Visual estimation is a very inaccurate practice. No precise descriptions of anthropometric measurements among CIP are available in the clinical practice guides.

[Correlation between body mass index and development of pressure ulcers in intensive care medicine].

Objectives: This study aims to evaluate the association between body mass index (BMI), incidence and severity of pressure ulcers (PU) in patients admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), and describe the differential prognosis of patients with PU and factors that modify it.

Material And Methods: Case-control study with observation period of 15 months. We collected baseline variables, prognostic scales, therapies and clinical outcome.

[Optimization of medical-diagnostic process in patients with traumatic brain injury during early rehabilitation].

The problem of cardiovascular disease and cancer, the effects of traumatic brain injury is now one of the major health and social problems. Every year in Ukraine registered 200 thousand cases of the victims of traumatic brain injury. Of these, 30% of people then have persistent signs of disability that results in a disability, sometimes painful existence the patient and his relatives.

[Medical and socio-economic effects of early rehabilitation of patients with acute cerebral vascular accidents].

Acute ischemic brain injury (stroke, stroke), a leader among the causes of morbidity and mortality in the world. This pathology is one of the most pressing health and social problems that cause enormous economic damage to society, due to the high fatality rate, significant disability and social maladjustment of patients, which is based in most cases are the motor and cognitive impairment. Despite the fact that, currently established risk factors and pathophysiological basis of this disease, the availability of effective methods of diagnosing illness, still a practicing neurologist in some cases difficult to find adequate therapy that could effectively reach a well-established neurological deficit.

[Treatment and outcome of chronic hepatitis B in children].

225 children at the age from 6 months to 15 years with chronic hepatitis type B (CHB) were under observation. In addition to clinical biochemical evaluation and morphological recording, there also was the serologic monitoring of the pathologic process condition by means of determination of hepatitis type B and other hepatitis viruses markers. The patients were observed during 1-10 years.