Titre : Mortalité

Mortalité : Questions médicales fréquentes

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Drug Contamination
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Contamination of platelet concentrates with Staphylococcus aureus induces significant modulations in platelet functionality.

Platelet concentrates (PCs) contaminated with Staphylococcus aureus can escape detection during PC screening, causing septic transfusion reactions. This study aimed to determine the impact of S. aureu... Targeted metabolomics (N = 3) was performed on non-spiked PCs and PCs inoculated with 10-20 colony-forming units (CFU)/bag of S. aureus. Metabolites were quantified at 0, 48 and 144 h using high-perfo... Eight metabolites had significantly different levels in spiked PCs (log2 fold-change ≤ or ≥±1) versus non-spiked units at 48 and 144 h. Xanthine, uridine, serine, glutamine and threonine were increase... Contamination with S. aureus exacerbates platelet storage lesions in contaminated PCs but only when the bacterium has reached clinically significant levels....

No difference in bacterial contamination of hip capsule sutures and control sutures in hip arthroplasty surgery.

Perioperative preventive measures are important to further reduce the rate of periprosthetic joint infections (PJI) in patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty (THA). During THA surgery, joint capsu... In 100 consecutive patients undergoing primary THA capsule sutures were exchanged by sterile sutures at the time of capsule closure. Both the original sutures and the remainder of the newly placed (co... Sutures from 98 patients were successfully collected and analyzed. Bacterial growth was observed in 7/98 (7.1%) of the capsule sutures versus 6/98 (6.1%) of the control sutures, with a difference of 1... This study showed that around 7% of capsule sutures used in primary THA were contaminated with bacteria and as such exchange by new sutures at the time of capsule closure could be an appealing PJI pre...

Status of cosmetic safety in Malaysia market: Mercury contamination in selected skin whitening products.

Concern on cosmetic safety has been a subject of interest in recent years and is commonly associated with the exposure of the consumers to chemicals and impurities such as mercury contamination. Moreo... The aim of this study was to identify the presence of mercury in skin whitening products, and to identify products containing mercury with the concentration exceeding the limitation of 1 ppm.... A total of 104 whitening products were selected from the market via random sampling technique. The mercury concentration was determined by accredited laboratory, and the results were later compared wi... A total of 51.9% (n = 54) whitening products were found registered under the NPRA Quest system and remaining 48.1% (n = 50) were non-registered products. None of the whitening products listed mercury ... This study presents the status of cosmetic products, particularly the skin whitening products available in Malaysia market. Concern arises when some of the products were found to have presence of harm...

Analysis of bacterial contamination and the effectiveness of UV light-based reprocessing of everyday medical devices.

The reprocessing of daily used medical devices is often inadequate, making them a potential source of infection. In addition, there are usually no consistent and technically standardized procedures av... Six different everyday medical devices (20 each; stethoscopes, tourniquets, bandage scissors, reflex hammers, tuning forks, and nystagmus glasses) were tested for bacterial contamination. All medical ... Immediately after clinical use, 104 of 120 contact samples showed an average bacterial contamination of 44.8±64.3 colony forming units (CFU) (0-300 CFU), also including potentially pathogenic bacteria... The present study shows the potentially clinically relevant bacterial contamination of everyday used medical devices. The reprocessing method tested here using UV light appears to be a suitable method...