Rozhledy v chirurgii : měsíčník Československé chirurgické společnosti
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Diagnosis and treatment of the penetrating injury of the chest is quite difficult. In all types/sizes of hospitals/these injuries has to be immediately treated in surgery departments. ⋯ In this paper experience with 37 cases of penetrated trauma is presented. Authors defined adequate criteria for selection of the chest tube, videothoracoscopy, video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS), emergency thoracotomy and thoracophrenolaparotomy.
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The authors evaluate the occurrence of candida infections in the surgical intensive care unit (ICU) in a one-year period. From the group of 1798 patients hospitalized in a surgical ICU there are 50 patients (2.8%) with candida colonisation and even 56 patients (3.1%) with candida infection. ⋯ In the one-year period, two patients died of multiorgan failure (MOF) in close connection with candida infection (sepsis). The mortality of the group with proved candida infection was 3.57%.