The Intensive Care Centers (ICU) existing in hospitals and designed to welcome patients in serious condition with chances of survival, are sectors that require constant monitoring and much more complex care. Thus, the ICUs are equipped with a continuous monitoring system, which assists patients in serious condition or with decompensation of one or more organ systems. This study aims to identify and report critically ill patients using the antibiotic Meropenem. The surveys were carried out from January to June 2015 in a private hospital in the city of Campos dos Goytacazes -RJ. Data were searched from medical prescriptions and their due laboratory tests. Thus, 72 of the hospitalized patients 30 patients used Meropenem during this period. For this reason, an antibiogram is essential so that the therapy with the carbapenem can be done correctly and safely and, consequently, for the treatment to be successful.

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The femur is one of the bones most exposed to trauma in the human body, so it represents the main cause of fracture care, mainly due to falls among the elderly and high-energy trauma among young people and adults. Based on the above situation, the objective of this study was to describe the epidemiological profile of hospitalizations for femur fractures throughout Brazil, from 2016 to 2019. For this purpose, a longitudinal observational analysis was used, based on the data obtained in the SUS hospital admissions information system (SIH-SUS: www2.datasus.gov.br). The results indicate that there were 411,865 hospitalizations over the four years described. Individuals between 20 and 29 years of age and over 70 years of age were more affected, with a prevalence of males. Thus, it was concluded that hospitalizations in young and elderly predominate, in males and in the Southeast region. Car accidents and diseases acquired in senility probably contribute to this profile.

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