3 results match your criteria: "Hospitales Universitarios Puerta del Mar y Puerto Real[Affiliation]"

Audit of cataract surgery in Cadiz: visual outcomes and complications.

Arch Soc Esp Oftalmol (Engl Ed)

June 2018

Departamento de Biomedicina, Biotecnología y Salud Pública, Universidad de Cádiz, Cádiz, Andalucía, España.

Objective: To publish the outcomes and complications of age-related cataract surgery in Cadiz (Spain). Due to the lack of national audits, a comparison was made between the results obtained here and those of the most recent European audit, EUREQUO (2013), and the British audit RCOphth NOD (2015).

Methods: A prospective, longitudinal, before-after study of 312 patients undergoing cataract surgery in the University Hospitals of Puerta del Mar and Puerto Real (Cadiz), in 2013-14.

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A modified ESBL Nordmann/Dortet/Poirel-based protocol to optimize early sepsis management.

J Microbiol Methods

August 2017

Unidad Clínica Intercentros de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología, Hospitales Universitarios Puerta del Mar y Puerto Real, Avda. Ana de Viya 21, 11009 Cádiz, Spain; Área de Microbiología, Universidad de Cádiz, Plaza Fragela s/n, 11003 Cádiz, Spain. Electronic address:

We evaluated a modification of a colorimetric test recently described by Dortet et al. (2015) for the rapid detection of ESBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae directly from positive blood cultures that requires less manipulation, materials and hands-on time. The simplified protocol showed a sensitivity and specificity of 100% and 95.

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[Application of mass spectrometry to bacterial identification].

Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin

June 2016

Unidad Intercentros de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología, Hospitales Universitarios Puerta del Mar y Puerto Real, Cádiz, España; Departamento de Microbiología, Universidad de Cádiz, Cádiz, España.

Correct and rapid identification of bacteria is essential for the correct diagnosis and treatment of infected patients. Until a few years ago, biochemical, colorimetric or even antibiotic sensitivity tests were used to identify genera and species. The main limitations of these methods were the time needed for their performance and the difficulty of distinguishing between microorganisms that were little reactive, highly similar, or difficult to culture.

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