3 results match your criteria: "University of Alabama at Birmingham Center for Health Promotion[Affiliation]"
Surgical and procedural antibiotic prophylaxis in the surgical ICU: an American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Critical Care Committee clinical consensus document.
Trauma Surg Acute Care Open
June 2024
University of Maryland Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
The use of prophylactic measures, including perioperative antibiotics, for the prevention of surgical site infections is a standard of care across surgical specialties. Unfortunately, the routine guidelines used for routine procedures do not always account for many of the factors encountered with urgent/emergent operations and critically ill or high-risk patients. This clinical consensus document created by the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Critical Care Committee is one of a three-part series and reviews surgical and procedural antibiotic prophylaxis in the surgical intensive care unit.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPaediatric heart transplantation: life-saving but not yet a cure.
Cardiol Young
February 2024
University of Alabama at Birmingham Center for Health Promotion, Birmingham, AL, USA.
Article Synopsis
- Heart transplantation for infants with hypoplastic left heart syndrome has seen significant success since the 1980s, with about 90% of children reaching their first year post-transplant thanks to advancements in clinical practices and research.
- Despite these improvements, challenges remain in ensuring long-term survival into adulthood, particularly due to high wait-list mortality and issues like cardiac allograft vasculopathy, which can lead to transplant failure.
- There is a need for targeted funding and research that addresses the unique risks faced by pediatric transplant recipients, as current funding heavily favors adult patients, limiting progress in pediatric care.
Flares after hydroxychloroquine reduction or discontinuation: results from the Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics (SLICC) inception cohort.
Ann Rheum Dis
March 2022
Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Objectives: To evaluate systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) flares following hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) reduction or discontinuation versus HCQ maintenance.
Methods: We analysed prospective data from the Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics (SLICC) cohort, enrolled from 33 sites within 15 months of SLE diagnosis and followed annually (1999-2019). We evaluated person-time contributed while on the initial HCQ dose ('maintenance'), comparing this with person-time contributed after a first dose reduction, and after a first HCQ discontinuation.