Sepsis is a major cause of infant and child mortality. Hyperglycemia worsens situation in patients with sepsis and increases mortality. Unfortunately, hyperglycemia in patients with sepsis is of ten ignored by clinicians. This study aimed to estimate the association between hyperglycemia and mortality in children with sepsis after controlling for multi-organ dysfunctions (MOD), age, and nutriti…
In theory, lymphocyte count increases in pediatric patients with dengue virus infection,because this infection increases apoptosis process and activation of T lymphocyte function, Th1 cytokine production, and B lymphocytes. Administration of zinc is hypothsized to affect immunity changes as shown by these biomarkers. This study aimed to examine the effect of zinc on lymphocyte count and length …
Background: Diarrhoea is still public health problem and often cause outbreak with various morbidity and mortality. The long onset of acute diarrhoea causes the length of stay that affect the cost. So proper management is needed to shorten inpatient length of stay. Probiotic can make the convalescence of children with acute diarrhoea faster. The aim of the study is to know the lenght of stay di…
A research about Evaluation of Drug Management in Publik Centre with Lodge Care of Purbalingga Based on Three Major of Public Sector Drug. The purpose of this study to evaluate management ofdrug in Public Health Centre with lodge care of Purbalingga based on three major of public sector drug. This research use descriptive method with approach qualitative which supported with quantitative data. …
A retrospectif study has been done to inpatient in Wamena Hospital, during January 1988 - December 1990. Out of 2,160 inpatients, 235 were amebiasis (10.87 percent). From 235, 48.51 percent (114) of them were admidtted with amebiasis, while the rest were admitted with other diagnosis. Diagnosis for Amebiasis were latterly can formed after feces examination. The symptom were diarrhea (39.57 perc…
A retrospective study had been done on hospitalized infants and children at Panyabungan Hospital in South Tapanuli Residence, during the period of 1992. During this period there were 367 patients. Most of them-135 (36.78 percent) were suffered from acute gastroenteritis; the other diagnoses were 76 (20.71 percent) acute bronchopneumonia, 70 (19.07 percent) malaria. 18 (4.9 percent) typhoid feve…
Acute Pulmonary edema is an emergency which should be treated promptly. Pulmonary edema is in actual fact a manisfestation of several underlying disease. From January 1993 to December 1993, 3966 patients were admitted to the emergency unit Harapan Kita National Cardiac Centre. These 104 patients had Cardiogenic acute pulmonary edema. It can be concluded that the underlying disease in cardiogeni…