International Trends in Adverse Drug Event-Related Mortality from 2001 to 2019: An Analysis of the World Health Organization Mortality Database from 54 Countries.

Background And Objective: Adverse drug events (ADEs) are becoming a significant public health issue. However, reports on ADE-related mortality are limited to national-level evaluations. Therefore, we aimed to reveal overall trends in ADE-related mortality across the 21st century on an international level.

[Trends of HIV patients operated at International Medical Center of Japan].

Background: HIV-infected patients are on the increase in Japan, and anti-HIV therapy improved their prognosis. It is expected that the number of operations in HIV patients will increase.

Methods: We surveyed the prevalence of HIV 30,188 patients operated at International Medical Center of Japan, a major, HIV/AIDS hospital, from 2001 to 2007.

[Current status of HIV/AIDS anesthetic experiences in Japan--questionnaire for anesthesia teaching hospitals].

Background: As the number of HIV-infected patients in Japan increases every year, the opportunity for a HIV-positive patient to undergo an operation is also increasing.

Methods: Authors sent questionnaire to 952 anesthesia teaching hospitals, in order to investigate the experience and management of the HIV-positive anesthetic cases.

Results: The reply was obtained from 480 teaching hospitals.