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AIM: Following the Hamas terror attack on Israeli towns on October 2023, 250 individuals were taken into captivity. On November-December 2023, during the cease-fire deal, 26 women and children were released. This study is the first to describe the physical and behavioural findings in children and their mothers in the immediate phase of returning home from captivity. METHODS: This is a retrospective study describing the clinical characteristics of the returnees after 49-53 days in captivity. Patients were admitted to a designated unit in the Schnieder Children's Medical Center of Israel on November-December 2023. The hospitalisation duration was 1-9 days. All patients were evaluated according to a detailed protocol and were treated respectively. RESULTS: Patient population included 19 children (ranged 2-18 years old) and 7 women (ranged 34-78 years old). The most common clinical findings upon return included significant weight loss, psychological trauma, complications of poor hygiene and complications of recent shrapnel injuries. Microbiology tests were positive for multiple gastrointestinal pathogens. Serologic screening tests were positive for various infectious diseases. CONCLUSION: Clinical findings in this time period were diverse and required the attention of a multidisciplinary team. Long term clinical and psychological effects are yet to be known.
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Background: Antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) programmes are established across the world to treat infections efficiently, prioritize patient safety, and reduce the emergence of antimicrobial resistance. One of the core elements of AMS programmes is guidance to support and direct physicians in making efficient, safe and optimal decisions when prescribing antibiotics. To optimize and tailor AMS, we need a better understanding of prescribing physicians' experience with AMS guidance. Objectives: To explore the prescribing physicians' user experience, needs and targeted improvements of AMS guidance in hospital settings. Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 36 prescribing physicians/AMS guidance users from hospital settings in Canada, Germany, Israel, Latvia, Norway and Sweden as a part of the international PILGRIM trial. A socioecological model was applied as an overarching conceptual framework for the study. Results: Research participants were seeking more AMS guidance than is currently available to them. The most important aspects and targets for improvement of AMS guidance were: (i) quality of guidelines; (ii) availability of infectious diseases specialists; and (iii) suitability of AMS guidance to department context. Conclusions: Achieving prudent antibiotic use not only depends on individual and collective levels of commitment to follow AMS guidance but also on the quality, availability and suitability of the guidance itself. More substantial commitment from stakeholders is needed to allocate the required resources for delivering high-quality, available and relevant AMS guidance to make sure that the prescribers' AMS needs are met.
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ABSTRACT Chronic periaortitis (CP) is an umbrella term used to describe a group of nosologically allied conditions that include idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis (Ormond's disease), inflammatory abdominal aortic aneurysm, and perianeurysmal retroperitoneal fibrosis. Retroperitoneal fibrosis encompasses a range of diseases characterized by the presence of a fibro-inflammatory tissue, which usually surrounds the abdominal aorta and the iliac arteries and extends into the retroperitoneum to envelop neighboring structures-ureters. Retroperitoneal fibrosis is generally idiopathic, but can also be secondary to the use of certain drugs, malignant diseases, infections, and surgery. Here we describe a 5 years follow up (2006-2011) of 5 patients admitted to our hospital with symptoms, laboratory, imaging and pathologic finding compatible with retroperitoneal fibrosis. We review our clinical course of our patient with respect to the literature.
RESUMO Periaortite crônica (PC) é um termo genérico usado para descrever um grupo de condições nosologicamente ligadas que incluem a fibrose idiopática retroperitoneal (doença de Ormond), o aneurisma da aorta abdominal inflamatório e a fibrose retroperitoneal perianeurismática. O termo fibrose retroperitoneal engloba uma gama de doenças que se caracterizam pela presença de um tecido fibroinflamatório que geralmente envolve a aorta abdominal e as artérias ilíacas, se estende ao retroperitôneo e envolve estruturas ureterais vizinhas. A fibrose retroperitoneal geralmente é idiopática, mas pode também ser secundária ao uso de determinados fármacos, doenças malignas, infecções e cirurgia. Este estudo descreve o seguimento por cinco anos (2006-2011) de cinco pacientes internados em nosso hospital que apresentavam sintomas e achados laboratoriais, de imagem e patológicos compatíveis com a fibrose retroperitoneal. Revisou-se a evolução clínica dos pacientes, que foi comparada com os achados da literatura.