Set-up of a Real-time Broad-Range 16S PCR in the University Hospital of Strasbourg, France.

2014 ◽  
Vol 142 (suppl_1) ◽  
pp. A164-A164
Author(s):  
Mariam Meddeb ◽  
Frédéric Schramm ◽  
Benoit Jaulhac ◽  
Christelle Koebel
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The University

Organization of Hospital for Extrahospital Emergencies

1985 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 284-285
Author(s):  
E. Tresalti ◽  
G. Rossi ◽  
P. Contegiacomo
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Care ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Treatment Center ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Transfusion Center ◽  
Technological Level ◽  
Subsequent Phase ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The University ◽  
Gastro Intestinal Tract

In the last few years various departments of the University Hospital “A. Gemelli” have been engaged in dealing with disasters of different kinds: the earthquakes of Belice, Friuli and Irpinia, the fire of the Todi antique exhibition, and various terrorist attacks. In these events the organization of the care of the survivors took the following four aspects into account: 1) Type and kind of lesions related to the nature of the event. 2) Criteria and collection areas of the injured, casualty clearing and treatments. 3) Distance of the disaster from the treatment center. 4) New structures to be set up for improving efficiency in the future.1) The most frequent clinical problems encountered burns and crushing injuries, and those affecting the musculoskeletal, cardiorespiratory and neuro-muscular systems. In a second phase, together with the possible lack of water, food, clothing, shelter and toilet facilities, infectious diseases of the respiratory and gastro-intestinal tract appear, particularly in old people and children. The treatment of the injured in the emergency phase requires a series of interventions at a very high technological level. In the subsequent phase, which may last for months, the treatment needed comes under normal preventive and clinical care.2) In the emergency period, which in our experience does not generally last longer than ten days, the medical and surgical departments of our hospital mostly concerned were the intensive care units (18 beds), the orthopedics and traumatology sections (122 beds), the surgical wards (309 beds), the transfusion center and the hemodialysis service.

scholarly journals Real-Time PCR Assay for the Detection of Dermatophytes: Comparison between an In-House Method and a Commercial Kit for the Diagnosis of Dermatophytoses in Patients from Dakar, Senegal

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 949
Author(s):  
Jihane Kabtani ◽  
Khadim Diongue ◽  
Jean-Noël Dione ◽  
Anne Delmas ◽  
Coralie L’Ollivier ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Real Time Pcr ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Diagnostic Indices ◽  
Hair Samples ◽  
African Populations ◽  
Microsporum Audouinii ◽  
Pcr Assays ◽  
The University ◽  
Commercial Kit

Background. PCR assays have been developed for the diagnosis of dermatophytes, yet data in African populations are scarce. Objective. This study aimed to compare two PCR assays for the diagnosis of dermatophytosis in outpatients at the Aristide Le Dantec University Hospital in Dakar, Senegal. Patients and methods. A total of 105 samples, including 24 skin, 19 nail and 62 hair samples collected from 99 patients were included in this study. Each sample was subjected to conventional diagnosis (CD), including direct microscopy and culture, and two real-time PCR assays: one in-house (IH)-PCR, used at the University Hospital of Marseille and the Eurobio Scientific commercial kit (CK): designed for the specific detection of six dermatophytes not including Microsporum audouinii. Results. Of the 105 specimens, 24.8%, 36.2% and 20% were positive by CD, IH-PCR and CK-PCR, respectively. The IH-PCR and CK-PCR exhibited 88.9% and 65.4% sensitivity, respectively. With a 36.6 diagnostic odd ratio and 1.41 needed to diagnose, the IH-PCR displayed better diagnostic indices than the CK-PCR. It is notable that, when considering the species that it claims to detect, when it came to skin and nail samples, CK-PCR sensitivity increased to 77%. Conclusions. The pan-dermatophyte IH-PCR performed better in the diagnosis of dermatophytosis in this African population than the CK-PCR, which is not designed to detect M. audouinii. Nevertheless, both assays exhibited similarly good diagnostic indices for tinea corporis and tinea unguium, both of which are localisations where M. audouinii is more rarely involved than in tinea capitis.

scholarly journals Psychosis Research at Maastricht University, The Netherlands

2003 ◽  
Vol 183 (06) ◽  
pp. 559-560 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jim van Os ◽  
Philippe Delespaul
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Central Government ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Source Population ◽  
Health Institutions ◽  
Mental Health Institutions ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Government Grant ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Personnel

The academic department of psychiatry at Maastricht University is situated not only in the university hospital, but crucially also in nearly all the affiliated mental health institutions in a region with a source population of 650 000. This set-up is funded by a central government grant, allowing academic personnel to work in affiliated mental health institutions. Research projects are carried out on the basis of 4-year PhD contracts, or, in the case of doctors with specialist training, through research psychiatrist appointments in the regional academic psychiatric network. Strong links exist with the Institute of Psychiatry in London.

A Working Model for Augmented Technology Transfer

1997 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 137-144
Author(s):  
Carol Dempster ◽  
Homer Goldberg
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Organ Preservation ◽  
Cold Spring Harbor ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Technology Commercialization ◽  
North Shore ◽  
Cold Spring ◽  
Institutional Funding ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The University

The Long Island Research Institute was set up in 1992 to create and nurture enterprises based on technologies derived from its sponsoring institutions: the University at Stony Brook, Brookhaven and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, and North Shore University Hospital. An account of the organization's conception is followed by descriptions of its comprehensive approach to technology commercialization in three projects: a gene-finding methodology, an organ preservation device, and a wastewater treatment system. These experiences suggest that success for such an organization requires managers combining technical and business expertise, extensive contacts with local business and research communities, variable and ongoing company assistance, access to venture capital, knowledge of company needs, an entrepreneurial champion for each project, and, fundamentally, public and institutional funding.

scholarly journals Psychosis Research at Maastricht University, The Netherlands

2003 ◽  
Vol 183 (6) ◽  
pp. 559-560
Author(s):  
Jim van Os ◽  
Philippe Delespaul
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Central Government ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Source Population ◽  
Health Institutions ◽  
Mental Health Institutions ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Government Grant ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Personnel

The academic department of psychiatry at Maastricht University is situated not only in the university hospital, but crucially also in nearly all the affiliated mental health institutions in a region with a source population of 650 000. This set-up is funded by a central government grant, allowing academic personnel to work in affiliated mental health institutions. Research projects are carried out on the basis of 4-year PhD contracts, or, in the case of doctors with specialist training, through research psychiatrist appointments in the regional academic psychiatric network. Strong links exist with the Institute of Psychiatry in London.

scholarly journals Contribution to the Assessment of the Quality of the Pre-Analytical Phase of Medical Biology Tests at the Ibn Sina University Hospital in Rabat

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdelhak Jnah
Keyword(s):  
University Hospital ◽  
Pneumatic Cylinder ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Ibn Sina ◽  
Laboratory Errors ◽  
Transportation Equipment ◽  
Analytical Phase ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Sampling Procedures ◽  
The University

The study of the nonconformities (NC) literatures in medical biology report that between 60-85% of laboratory errors are produced during the pre-analytical phase, which are often external and escapes the biologist's control. The objective of our study was to identify the factors at the origin of non-conformities during this phase at the University Hospital of Rabat. A mixed analytical descriptive study realized between August 2019 and August 2020 based on a non-compliance form, a self-questionnaire, an observation grid, focus groups and semi-structured interviews. We also set up the Deming wheel PDCA as well as the work tools (BRAINSTORMIN, 5M, ISHIKAWA). Our results show that 22 % of the prescriptions of biologic tests are drafted by nurses and not doctors this in the absence of an updated list of biological exams. The samples are taken at 88,1% by unqualified personnel and 95 % without any guide or manual.  For the traceability aspect, the name of the sampler is never placed on the sheet of examination, age, sex of the patient; time and nature of the sample are often not mentioned in the label vials of samples.  Transportation is made by pneumatic cylinder system and sometimes by unqualified staff in absence of procedures for packaging and transportation equipment without traceability. The reception of samples is carried out by untrained staff on the error management of the pre-analytical phase. They result at first from a major defect of coordination between the laboratory and the services, then by the lack of continuing education and the weak competence of the staff involved in this process and finally compounded by the lack of manual sampling, procedures for packaging, transport, reception and triage.

Symptomatic vascular complications after vascular closure device use following diagnostic and interventional catheterisation

VASA ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thalhammer ◽  
Aschwanden ◽  
Jeanneret ◽  
Labs ◽  
Jäger
Keyword(s):  
Current Literature ◽  
Vascular Complications ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Closure Device ◽  
Ultrasound Guided ◽  
Vascular Closure Device ◽  
Device Use ◽  
Arterial Stenoses ◽  
The University ◽  
Stenotic Lesions

Background: Haemostatic puncture closure devices for rapid and effective hemostasis after arterial catheterisation are a comfortable alternative to manual compression. Implanting a collagen plug against the vessel wall may become responsible for other kind of vascular injuries i.e. thrombotic or stenotic lesions and peripheral embolisation. The aim of this paper is to report our clinically relevant vascular complications after Angio-Seal® and to discuss the results in the light of the current literature. Patients and methods: We report the symptomatic vascular complications in 17 of 7376 patients undergoing diagnostic or therapeutic catheterisation between May 2000 and March 2003 at the University Hospital Basel. Results: Most patients presented with ischaemic symptoms, arterial stenoses or occlusions and thrombotic lesions (n = 14), whereas pseudoaneurysms were extremely rare (n = 3). Most patients with ischaemic lesions underwent vascular surgery and all patients with a pseudoaneurysm were successfully treated by ultrasound-guided compression. Conclusions: Severe vascular complications after Angio-Seal® are rare, consistent with the current literature. There may be a shift from pseudoaneurysms to ischaemic lesions.

User Evaluation of an Integrated Medical Workstation for Clinical Data Analysis

1993 ◽  
Vol 32 (05) ◽  
pp. 365-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Timmeis ◽  
J. H. van Bemmel ◽  
E. M. van Mulligen
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Clinical Research ◽  
Clinical Data ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
User Evaluation ◽  
Scientific Staff ◽  
Medical Institutions ◽  
Clinical Data Analysis ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
The University

AbstractResults are presented of the user evaluation of an integrated medical workstation for support of clinical research. Twenty-seven users were recruited from medical and scientific staff of the University Hospital Dijkzigt, the Faculty of Medicine of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, and from other Dutch medical institutions; and all were given a written, self-contained tutorial. Subsequently, an experiment was done in which six clinical data analysis problems had to be solved and an evaluation form was filled out. The aim of this user evaluation was to obtain insight in the benefits of integration for support of clinical data analysis for clinicians and biomedical researchers. The problems were divided into two sets, with gradually more complex problems. In the first set users were guided in a stepwise fashion to solve the problems. In the second set each stepwise problem had an open counterpart. During the evaluation, the workstation continuously recorded the user’s actions. From these results significant differences became apparent between clinicians and non-clinicians for the correctness (means 54% and 81%, respectively, p = 0.04), completeness (means 64% and 88%, respectively, p = 0.01), and number of problems solved (means 67% and 90%, respectively, p = 0.02). These differences were absent for the stepwise problems. Physicians tend to skip more problems than biomedical researchers. No statistically significant differences were found between users with and without clinical data analysis experience, for correctness (means 74% and 72%, respectively, p = 0.95), and completeness (means 82% and 79%, respectively, p = 0.40). It appeared that various clinical research problems can be solved easily with support of the workstation; the results of this experiment can be used as guidance for the development of the successor of this prototype workstation and serve as a reference for the assessment of next versions.

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