An Avoidable Death of Meningoencephalitis Child Patient

Avoidable factors in child death.

There were 131 deaths among children aged between birth and 14 years during a period of 18 months in one inner London area health authority. One hundred children died in hospital, 23 at home, and 8 elsewhere. Thirty three died of congenital, 46 of perinatal, and 34 of other medical causes. There were 18 violent deaths--16 among children over 1 year of age. Medical and social information, collec...

Unexpected postmortem diagnosis of acanthamoeba meningoencephalitis in an immunocompetent child.

Meningoencephalitis caused by Acanthamoeba spp. is a rare opportunistic infection, difficult to diagnose and treat, which causes death in almost all cases. Here, the authors report a 5-year-old Iranian immunocompetent girl who died of fulminant acanthamoeba meningoencephalitis. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first case of acanthamoeba meningoencephalitis in Iran.

An avoidable transmission of HIV from mother to child.

690 CMAJ, April 5, 2011, 183(6) © 2011 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors A29-year-old married woman, an immigrant from sub-Saharan Africa, presented to the Southern Alberta HIV Clinic at week 26 of pregnancy after receiving a positive test result from prenatal HIV screening. She had a university-level education, was fluent in English and agreed to start highly active antiretroviral ...

An Unsual form of Measles Meningoencephalitis

Avoidable death as a measure of quality.

Age standardized mortality rates (SMR) vary between 43 and 162 per 100,000 inhabitants from cervical cancer in different areas in England, between 19 and 250 from tuberculosis, between 31 and 249 for asthma, between 0 and 263 from rheumatic heart disease, from 0 to 379 for acute respiratory disease, from 18 to 279 for abdominal hernias, and from 0 to 228 for appendicitis. Essentially similar di...