OBJECTIVE Determine the impact of three stepwise interventions on the rate of central catheter-associated bloodstream infections. DESIGN Quasi-experimental study. SETTING Three surgical intensive care units (general surgery, trauma, and neurosurgery) at a 1500-bed county teaching hospital in the Miami metro area. PATIENTS All consecutive central catheter-associated bloodstream infection c...

BACKGROUND Scrub typhus is prevalent in India although definite statistics are not available. There has been only one study on scrub typhus meningitis 20 years ago. Most reports of meningitis/meningoencephalitis in scrub typhus are case reports. METHODS A retrospective study done in Pondicherry to extract cases of scrub typhus admitted to hospital between February 2011 and January 2012. Diagn...

OBJECTIVE To study the clinical profile of children with scrub typhus and its association with hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis. METHODS Children presenting with unexplained fever and multi-systemic involvement between May to December 2011 were tested for scrub typhus using IgM ELISA kits. Occurrence of Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in IgM positive cases of scrub typhus was studied. ...

Scrub typhus is common among patients with acute fever in rural areas of Thailand. The authors prospectively recruited patients with acute fever from provincial Thai army hospitals. Dot-ELISA test for scrub typhus was done in hospitals and then compared with standard immunofluorescent assay for diagnosis of scrub typhus. Among 178 patients, scrub typhus was diagnosed by immunofluorescent assay ...

We studied the root distribution and the effects of leachates from the dominant shrub in rosemary scrub, Florida rosemary (Ceratiola ericoides), on germination of seven subordinate rosemary scrub species. For rosemary scrub specialists, (Eryngium cuneifolium and Hypericum cumulicola), germination was suppressed by the leaf and litter leachates. For species that are not found exclusively in rose...

Abstract Objective Handover without a structured format is prone to the omission of information and could be potential risk patient safety. We sought determine effect checklist on quality intraoperative change shift handover between scrubs circulars. Methods conducted control intervention study operating room wards two teaching hospitals from 20 Feb 21 Nov 2020. This research was in three stage...

Abstract Under-staffing of nurses is a significant problem in most countries. It expected to rise the coming years, making it challenging perform crucial tasks like assessing patient's condition, assisting surgeon medical procedures, catheterization and Blood Transfusion etc., Automation some essential would be viable idea overcome this shortage nurses. One such task intended automate role 'Scr...

BACKGROUND Scrub typhus, a potentially fatal rickettsial infection, is common in Asia. Although serologic surveys suggested that as many as one-fourth of cases of scrub typhus might be in children, very few reports of childhood scrub typhus are available in the medical literature. OBJECTIVES To document the clinical, laboratory and epidemiologic characteristics of pediatric patients with scru...