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GMS Hyg Infect Control
April 2024
İzmir Bakircay University Cigli Education and Research Hospital, Anaesthesia, İzmir,Turkey.
Background: Patients are hospitalized for extended periods, particularly in intensive care units (ICUs). As a result, the saturation probe (pulse oximeter) remains attached for an extended period and microorganisms can grow in the wet environment. If the pulse oximeters are not reprocessed, cross-infection may occur.
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February 2023
A.V. Zelmann Center for Neurobiology and Brain Rehabilitation, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Bolshoy Boulevard 30, 121205 Moscow, Russia.
Complex immunosuppressive therapy is prescribed in medical practice to patients with glomerulonephritis to help them overcome symptoms and prevent chronic renal failure. Such an approach requires long-term systemic administration of strong medications, which causes severe side effects. This work shows the efficiency of polymer capsule accumulation (2.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFZhongguo Wei Zhong Bing Ji Jiu Yi Xue
November 2004
Tianjin Gong'an Hospital, Tianjin 300050, China.
Results of surgical treatment of 168 patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) in the diabetic foot syndrome (DFS) were analyzed. Expediency of operative intervention was substantiated by pathogenic form of affection, its depth and diffusion, composition of microorganisms in purulent-necrotic focus. Performance of more extensive surgical treatment or distal amputation of foot with consequent closure of vast wound defect using full-layer subcutaneous-cutaneous flap with protracted selective intra-arterial anti-aggregate and antibacterial therapy was indicated in order to preserve the lower extremity supporting function and for prophylaxis of diffusion of purulent-necrotic affection.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Clin Microbiol
December 1989
Department of Surgery, Hospital Universitari Nostra Senyora del Mar, Spain.
We investigated in vitro the antibacterial properties of a simulated new hub model in which the female part has an antiseptic chamber through which the needle (male part) must pass before connection of the set and the catheter. To establish the time needed for disinfection, the magnitude of reduction of the contaminating inocula by the new hub model, and the antibacterial properties of the different components of the hub, we used needles contaminated with solutions containing high inocula (1.9 x 10(7) to 1.
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