A case of dental sepsis is presented which resulted in a deep neck infection and eventually caused a mediastinal abscess. The microbiology of such a mixed infection is briefly discussed with emphasis on the synergistic activity of the organisms. The anatomy of the fascial spaces is also described to draw attention to the possible routes of spread of this potentially life threatening condition.

Detailed Evidence for Patient Safety Indicators Decubitus Ulcer........................................................................................2 Failure to Rescue.....................................................................................5 Selected Infections Due to Medical Care.......................................................7 Postoperative Respiratory Failure..............

background and objective: neonatal sepsis is defined as presence of clinical signs accompanied by positive blood culture in newborns less than one month of age. sepsis is a common cause of hospital admission in neonates, and it is known as one of the main causes of mortality among them, not only in developed countries but in developing ones. delay in diagnosis and appropriate antibiotic therapy...

Abstract Objective: To assess the incidence of thrombocytopenia and changes in various platelet parameters, in culture positive neonatal sepsis. Methods: This was prospective study conducted over a period of one year from December 2009 to November 2010 in neonatal intensive care unit of DDUH Hospital, a tertiary care hospital in Delhi, North India. All babies who were admitted during this perio...

Prosthetic mesh infection after open or laparoscopic hernia repair is a rare complication. Superficial wound infection can be resolved by treatment with a combination of antibiotics and wound drainage, whereas deep-seated mesh infection, which can lead to chronic groin sepsis, usually requires removal of the mesh. A 56-year-old Japanese man was admitted to our hospital for the treatment of deep...

We investigate the application of distributional semantics models for facilitating unsupervised extraction of biomedical terms from unannotated corpora. Term extraction is used as the first step of an ontology learning process that aims to (semi-)automatic annotation of biomedical concepts and relations from more than 300K PubMed titles and abstracts. We experimented with both traditional distr...

been widely accepted as an effective method to treat acute deep vein thrombosis of the lower extremities (13). Vascular access through the popliteal vein is the most common route for the procedure. To date, procedure-related complications such as hemorrhaging, pulmonary embolism, infection and, sepsis have been reported. However, to our knowledge, iatrogenic arteriovenous fistulas have not been...

The aim of this cohort (prospective) analytic study was to determine the microbiological pattern of bacterial infection in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of Kasr El Eini Hospital, to investigate microbial colonization of neonates at birth before any interference and to examine whether surface cultures yielded information helpful in management. The study population comprised 70 high risk neona...

Sepsis is a common health condition in older adults that may present with typical or atypical symptoms and signs. The perception of warning signs by relatives important their decision to seek hospital medical treatment. This cross-sectional study was conducted explore the sepsis as perceived relatives, awareness sepsis, duration from symptom onset arrival at tertiary care Bangkok, Thailand. Sev...