The role of " colonization pressure " in the spread of vancomycin-resistant enterococci: an important infection control variable. Sir—We read with interest the article entitled " A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo Controlled Trial of Acetazolamide for the Treatment of Elevated Intracranial Pressure in Cryptococcal Meningitis " by Newton et al. [1], which evaluated the addition of acetazolamide...

OBJECTIVE Monitoring of healthcare-associated infection rates is important for infection control and hospital benchmarking. However, manual surveillance is time-consuming and susceptible to error. The aim was, therefore, to develop a prediction model to retrospectively detect drain-related meningitis (DRM), a frequently occurring nosocomial infection, using routinely collected data from a clini...

Objective: In posterior fossa surgery such as microvascular decompression (MVD), cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leakage is a crucial problem. this study, we explored the accurate diagnosis and effective non-surgical management of postoperative CSF leakage.Methods: We reviewed 749 patients who underwent MVD from August 2018 to April 2022. Although significantly reduced problem by using triple-layer c...

STUDY DESIGN Retrospective review. OBJECTIVES To review the experience of a single institution with degenerative lumbar surgery and to identify cases of incidental dural tears (DTs); and to report on the efficacy of our postoperative management protocol for DT, which relies on early mobilization. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA DTs are a common complication of degenerative lumbar spine surgery. ...

Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH), also known as pseudotumor cerebri, defined as elevated intracranial pressure with no evident cause found on extensive evaluation. Figures 1 and 2 show bilateral papilledema. Headache is absent in some patients with IIH, especially in the pediatric population.1,2 Abducens nerve palsy is a common finding. Oculomotor palsy (as in our case) and other cran...

in this research, the appropriateness of drainmod-n model was evaluated for the simulation of nitrate transport with subsurface drainage in paddy fields. during a canola growing season from november 2011 to april 2012, the nitrate concentration of drainage water and soil saturation extracts of two depths of 30 and 60 cm was measured in consolidated paddy fields of sari agricultural sciences and...