Effect of Therapeutic Hypothermia on Liver Enzymes in Patients With Stroke.

Introduction: A promising strategy that can lead to longer brain cell survival after an acute stroke is therapeutic hypothermia. It represents a controlled decrease in body temperature for therapeutic reasons. It is increasingly represented as a therapeutic option and is one of the most challenging treatments that improves neurological recovery and treatment outcome in patients with acute stroke.

Mortality among third age patients with hip fracture and high cardiac risk.

Introduction: Mortality after hip fracture remains high in spite of the progress of medicine. Due to the trend toward longer life, the problem of hip fracture is getting more significant. The aim of this study is to determine the effects of surgical treatment in patients with high risk of hip fracture on mortality reduction.

Time trends in incidence of hypertrophic scarring in children treated for burns.

Control of burn-scar hypertrophy remains a priority program in the care of burned children. We analysed data from 779 clinical notes of children aged from 0 to 15 years who were hospitalised at the Burn Centre in Brno between 1991 and 1996. The occurrence of hypertrophic scarring in burn-injured children was studied by monitoring two periods separately, the first period from 1991 to 1993 and the second period with better clinical advantages from 1994 to 1996 using outpatients' records.

Epidemiology of childhood burns at the Burn Centre in Brno, Czech Republic.

Three hundred and ninety-four children were admitted to the burn centre in Brno over a 3-year period. The overall incidence was 31 children per 100,000 children aged 0-14 years. The majority of patients were aged 1-3 years and almost 80 per cent of them were scalded.