Decubitus is one of important problem in the CVA patient. Immobilitation is one of factor accor decubitus. One of treatment is back rub and back rub + beside left and right, but this treatment was not done optimally. The function of this treatment is to vasodiate blood vessel and making good metabolism, to increase activity, to decrease the pain, so to decrease decubitus risk. The aim of the st…
Eurycoma lonifolia (pasak Bumi) are widely found in East Kalimantan. Etnobotanically, the roots of this plant were used to decrease gastric pain and anti ulcers, but scientific evidences have not been available yet. The objective of this research was to test the anti-ulcer effect of Eurycoma longifolia against gastric ulcer in rats. Water extract of Eurycoma longifolia’s given to the rats bef…
Corneal ulcers is one of the difficult case to handle, most of them causes a blindness. It needs an antibiogram in order to choose drug of choice, however, it takes time. So sensitivity patterns is important as guidance to choose an initial antibiotic treatment to the patient. Sensitivity test of 42 isolates from 33 corneal ulcer patients against 12 antibiotics have been done, using disc diffus…
Sterile culture results were quite often found in corneal ulcer patients. This condition usualy related to insufficient material available for culture. In order to increase bacterial isolation rate, improvement of the microbiological isolation method using enriched media prior to the isolation were perfomed. The results showed that, using this method, sterile culture results were significantly …
Stress ulcer is defined as an acute mucosal lesion of the upper gastrointestinal tract caused by an indirect influence of several pathological situations such as brain tumor, severe burn, patients with multiorgan failure and stroke. Many investigators have reported the prevalence of stress ulcer among patients with stroke. This article will report the result of endoscopic examination among pati…