ABSTRACT
La incapacidad que supone la alteración de la deambulación en el anciano representa una importante limitación de su independencia funcional. El proceso del envejecimiento, sumado en ocasiones a procesos patológicos, impiden al sujeto caminar y desplazarse con normalidad. Esta deficiencia se puede suplir con un conjunto de ayudas técnicas que permiten al individuo restablecer un patrón de marcha correcto y eficiente. Revisamos los aspectos más relevantes expuestos en la literatura al respecto, analizando las principales opciones disponibles y presentando sus indicaciones primordiales (AU)
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Aged , Humans , Locomotion/physiology , Aging/physiology , Movement Disorders/prevention & control , Orthopedic Equipment , Canes , Crutches , WalkersABSTRACT
The electrocardiographic abnormalities occurring with acute central nervous system disease were known phenomenon. In this study, we have done a descriptive study of 100 patients with intracranial haemorrhage (ICH) compared with a control group and the changes associated a worse prognostic. We have observed that the incidence of abnormalities electrocardiographic were most frequent in the patients with ICH (p < 0.05). The incidence of abnormalities in the pattern electrocardiographic was the 70% and the incidence of arrhythmias was the 56%. We have also observed that the presence of Q wave, QTc > or = 0.44 sec and the atrial fibrillations means a worse prognostic. We conclude that the incidence of abnormalities electrocardiographic in the ICH is elevate an the presence of Q wave, QTc > or = 0.44 an the atrial fibrillations means a worse prognostic.
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Cerebral Hemorrhage/diagnosis , Electrocardiography , Acute Disease , Adult , Aged , Anthropometry , Arrhythmias, Cardiac , Atrial Fibrillation , Female , Glasgow Coma Scale , Humans , Male , Middle AgedABSTRACT
We realized a retrospective study of all the patients who developed a nosocomial meningitis after to admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of our hospital, during the last five years. Nosocomial meningitis was found in 3.29% of the neurologic patients. The most frequent causes of the meningitis was the external ventricular drainage (14.8%), post-neurosurgical (0.8%) and head injury (0.0007%). The causative bacterias were stafilococo, S. pneumoniae, K. pneunomiae and P. aeruginosa. The mortality was of the 39.06%.
