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We report a quasi-experimental study of the implementation of an antimicrobial stewardship program in two surgical wards, with a pre-intervention period with just assessment of prescription and an intervention period with a prospective audit on antibiotic prescription model. There was a significant reduction of length of stay and the total days of antimicrobial administration. There were no differences in mortality between groups. The antimicrobial stewardship program led to the early detection of inappropriate empirical antibiotic treatment and was associated with a significant reduction in length of stay and the total duration of antimicrobial therapy.
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Anti-Infective Agents/therapeutic use , Surgery Department, Hospital/statistics & numerical data , Adult , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Anti-Bacterial Agents , Bacterial Infections/drug therapy , Bacterial Infections/mortality , Cross Infection/drug therapy , Cross Infection/mortality , Female , Guidelines as Topic , Hospital Mortality , Humans , Inappropriate Prescribing , Length of Stay , Male , Middle Aged , Postoperative Complications/drug therapy , Postoperative Complications/microbiology , Prospective StudiesABSTRACT
Las intoxicaciones por alcohol y drogas de abuso son una causa frecuente de consulta en los Servicios de Urgencias. Las alteraciones electrocardiográficas y las arritmias debidas a la ingesta de alcohol se conocen como Holiday Heart Syndrome. Este síndrome se define como la presencia de alteraciones del ritmo o de la conducción cardiaca asociadas al consumo de alcohol que revierten tras la intoxicación y que se producen en una persona sin enfermedad cardiaca conocida. La alteración más común es la fibrilación auricular. Se presenta el caso de una paciente joven que ingresa en urgencias por intoxicación por alcohol y diferentes drogas y que presentaba un bloqueo auriculoventricular de primer grado transitorio. Se discute el posible efecto causal de las drogas y del alcohol en los cambios electrocardiográficos observados en esta paciente (AU)
Alcohol intoxication and drug abuse are a common cause of visits to emergency rooms. Arrhythmias and electrocardiographic changes due to alcohol intake is called Holiday Heart Syndrome. It is defined as a rhythm or cardiac conduction alterations associated to the consumption of alcohol, reversed after the poisoning, in a person without known heart disease. The most common alteration is atrial fibrillation. We report the case of a young patient that presented in the emergency room by poisoning with different drugs and alcohol who presented transitory first degree atrioventricular block. We discussed the possible causal effect of drugs and alcohol consumed in the electrocardiographic changes in this patient (AU)
