background: the provision of accurate and timely drug information to health care professionals is an important mechanism to promote safe and effective drug therapy for patients. world’s drug and poison information centers (dpics) are mainly affiliated to hospitals, rather rarely with faculties of pharmacy or with faculties of medicine and other related organizations. methods: data was collected...

background: one of the means of assessing dose to patients from computed tomography (ct) procedure is through the determination of the skin entrance dose (esd) with the appreciation of the concern that ocular exposure effects from ct scan includes possible induction of cancer and cataract. due to the relatively more recent introduction of ct scans, little work has been done in this area in the ...

human immune deficiency virus (hiv) infection is a pandemic, even among pregnant women. it has no cure and so, great importance should be placed on care and support for the sufferer. there is an increasing concern and desire to curb the high incidence of mother to child transmission (mtct) in nigeria. therefore, this study aimed at determining the prevalence and pattern of hiv infection at imo ...

Handwashing compliance was compared at two medical- surgical intensive care units (ICUs) of a teaching and a non-teaching hospital. The mean compliance was 22.2% and 42.6%, respectively. Respiratory therapists at the non-teaching hospital had the best handwashing compliance (52.6%). Nursing assistants at the teaching hospital had the worst compliance (11.5%). Nursing assistant was the only heal...

1Department of Dermatology and Allergology, Academic Teaching Hospital Dresden-Friedrichstadt, Dresden, Germany, 2Center for Physical Therapy and Rehabilitative Medicine, Academic Teaching Hospital Dresden-Friedrichstadt, Dresden, Germany, 3Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine and Pain Management, Academic Teaching Hospital Dresden-Friedrichstadt, Dresden...

Enis Özkaya1, Evrim Çakır2, Mehmet Çınar3, Metin Altay3, Orhan Gelişen3, Fadıl Kara1 1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dr. Sami Ulus Maternity and Women’s Health Teaching and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey 2Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Dışkapı Yıldırım Beyazıd Teaching and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey 3Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Etlik Zübeyde Hanım M...

1886 Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 10, No. 10, October 2004 study conducted on French blood donors from September to November 2000 showed low titers of WNV neutralizing antibodies in two donors originating from the Département du Var (6). However, to date, no clinical human cases have been reported in this area. WNV must be considered as a causative agent of meningitis, ...

56 1. Department of Underwater and Hyperbaric Medicine, Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Haydarpasa Teaching Hospital, Turkey 2. Department of Internal Medicine, Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Haydarpasa Teaching Hospital, Turkey 3. Departments of Emergency Medicine, Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Haydarpasa Teaching Hospital, Turkey Sudden onset of cyanosis due to systemic onset juvenil...