Browsing by Author "Hartzenberg, B."

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    The CRASH trial - The first large-scale randomised controlled trial in head injury
    (Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2001) Hartzenberg, B.; Nathoo, N.
    The CRASH Trial (Corticosteroid Randomisation after Significant Head injury) is a large-scale randomised controlled trial, among adults with head injury and impaired consciousness, of the effects of a short-term infusion of corticosteroids on death and on neurological disability.
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    Ventriculoperitoneal shunt infections in children : a 6-year study
    (Health & Medical Publishing Group, 1991) Cotton, M. F.; Hartzenberg, B.; Donald, P. R.; Burger, P. J.
    In a study of ventriculoperitoneal shunt infections conducted retrospectively between 1983 and 1987 and prospectively in 1988 39 infections from 372 shunt procedures (incidence 10,5%) were identified. The most common organism isolated was Staphylococcus aureus (18; 47%) followed by S. epidermidis (10; 26%). Forty-two per cent of staphylococci were methicillin-resistant. Gram-negative infections were associated with myelomeningoceles and Gram-positive infections with other forms of hydrocephalus (P = 0,048). Lymphocyte predominance was found more frequently than polymorphonuclear predominance in cerebrospinal fluid.