Reduction of Contamination with Antibiotics on Surfaces and in Environmental Air in Three European Hospitals Following Implementation of a Closed-System Drug Transfer Device.

Purpose: Occupational exposure of nurses to antibiotics may result in adverse health effects such as hypersensitivity, allergic reactions, resistance, and anaphylactic shock. The purpose of this study was to measure surface and air contamination with antibiotics in three hospitals during the preparation of the drugs using conventional techniques or using the Tevadaptor® closed-system drug transfer device (CSTD).

Methods: Surface contamination was measured by taking wipe samples.

[Hemorrhagic complications of chronic anticoagulant treatment in a single intensive care unit].

Introduction: There are well defined indications in which chronic anticoagulant treatment has been widely applied. However, complications of this therapy are less discussed, although these complications may lead to serious or even fatal consequences.

Aim: The aim of the authors was to analyze data of patients admitted to their multidisciplinary intensive care unit for complications of chronic anticoagulant therapy between January 1, 2006 and December 31, 2011.

[Acute quadriplegia after diabetic ketoacidosis].

A 36-year-old female was admitted to the intensive care unit after resuscitation diagnosed with diabetic ketoacidotic coma, which was the first manifestation of her diabetes mellitus. It may have been provoked by pulmonary or gastrointestinal coinfection. Five days following admission the patient regained consciousness and homeostasis returned to normal.

Experimental studies for the surgical correction and fixation of dorsal spine deformities.

One of the specific features of the scoliosis operations with a posterior approach is that both the correction of the deformity and then the maintaining of the corrected situation are carried out with the help of the implants. With the currently applied systems based on the CD principle it is still difficult to control the rotational component of the scoliotic curve. To complement the systems based on the CD principle, we have developed an implant family whose application makes the correction of the dorsal deformity generally simplier and derotation more effective.