Highlights: Most urinary tract infections are caused by Gram-negative bacteria with E. coli being the most common bacteria. Antibiotics with the highest susceptibility for Gram-negative bacteria were ertapenem, meropenem, amikacin, and imipenem. Antibiotics with the highest susceptibility for Gram-positive bacteria mainly were susceptible to chloramphenicol,streptomycin, vancomycin, rifampin, tigecycline, teicoplanin, and ampicillin. Abstract: Urinary tract infection (UTI) is one of the most common bacterial infections. Inappropriate antibiotic use for UTI treatment may lead to antibiotic resistance. This study aimed to provide an updated bacterial and antibiogram profile from urine specimens of patients diagnosed with UTI. This study was a retrospective study using urine culture and antibiotic susceptibility test results obtained from Clinical Microbiology Laboratory in a tertiary general hospital in Surabaya, Indonesia for a two-month period patients. Most aged more than and/or equal to 59 years, in both sexes. Gram-negative bacteria, particularly , was being the most between June to July 2019. There were 215 patients with significant urine culture results of 54.4% from Escherichia coli female bacteria were carbapenem antibiotics and amikacin, while teicoplanin and vancomycin were some antibiotics susceptible to gramcommon bacteria that caused UTI, followed by K. pneumoniae. Some antibiotics with the highest susceptibility to gram-negative positive bacteria. This study result indicated that there was an urge to conduct local antibiogram profile investigation due to the low susceptibilities shown in recent empirical therapy recommendations, such as trimethoprim sulfamethoxazole, fluoroquinolone, nitrofurantoin, and fosfomycin.
New-onset diabetes mellitus (DM) has been lately observed among patients with post-COVID-19 syndrome. ACE2 and TMPRSS22 receptors were found expressed in the pancreas, thus acting as an entry gate leading to infection-induced pancreatic injury. Moreover, COVID-19 and DM have been reported to interact bidirectionally, in which existing DM comorbidity increases the patient's chance of getting severe COVID-19 and vice versa. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is one of the therapy modalities given by applying administration of oxygen 100% under pressure of more than 1.4 ATA. HBOT has been shown to improve cellular function such as decreasing oxidative stress, inflammation, and mitochondrial dysfunction. These protective effects might correlate with preserved pancreatic cells, which improved insulin homeostasis. However, the potency and mechanism of HBOT to these patients remain unclear. Hence, we conduct a review of the available evidence concerning the potential mechanisms of HBOT in improving new-onset DM among post-COVID-19 syndrome patients. Current literature showed that HBOT might be beneficial for these patients, thus this modality might be a new breakthrough for researchers and health workers considering post-COVID-19 syndrome incidence tends to rise as the pandemic grows.
The COVID-19 pandemic situation causes many people to be confined at home and triggers people to tend to spend more time accessing social media. Social media basically shows activities carried out by other people and this can trigger the phenomenon of Fear of Missing Out (FoMO). The purpose of this study is to know the level of knowledge of the Indonesian society about the FoMO and how to overcome it in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic. This study is a type of descriptive survey study; it describes the level of society knowledge about FoMO through webinars during the COVID-19 pandemic. The sample is 779 people who have met the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The data was obtained through a google form which was distributed to webinar participants, then processed and described in the form of a distribution table of respondents along with the average post-test results on a scale of 7 and 100 for the age group. The collected data were 779 respondents from different age groups (12-55 years). All existing age groups can answer more than half of the questions correctly. The average of questions answered correctly was almost the same in all age groups, with the 41–45-year-old group being in the top position. The average post-test result from all age ranges was 69.57. The average level of society knowledge about the FoMO phenomenon and how to solve it through webinar in the COVID-19 pandemic which was known from the post-test scores did not show much different results between each age range. This shows that all age ranges have the same susceptibility to experiencing FoMO.
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