Gastroenteritis or diarrhea is a change that occurs in defecation, both changes in frequency and consistency of defecation. The most common cause of gastroenteritis is bacteria, whose treatment requires antibiotics. Antibiotics should be selected or used rationally to avoid unexpected resistance, toxicity and side effects, and increased medical costs. This research purpose is to know appropriat…
Fournier’s gangrene is synergistic polymicrobial necrotizing fasciitis of perineum of the perineum and genitalia. It can progress to a fulminant soft tissue infection that spread rapidly along fascial planes, causing necrosis of the skin, subcutaneous soft tissue, and fasia, associated systemic sepsis. Important to know the profile of Fournier’s gangrene by age, etiology, bacterial invasion…
Pneumonia is an infection of the pulmonary parenchyma that causes consolidation and disturbance when gas exchanges. Antibiotics have an important role in the treatment of pneumonia. The objective of the study was to determine the appropriateness of antibiotics use in adult pneumonia patient in Private Hospital Wards X Pekanbaru in 2016. This study is a retrospective descriptive study using seco…
The more complex of human society, the more crime will happen, one of the crimes is obscenity. Victims of obscenity are not only from adults, it has been spreaded into teenagers, even to children under age. The consequences of child abuse can lead to its own problems for the future development of the child. In addition, some of suspect would do sexual abuse through anus. Anus is not created to …
Geriatric patients often have multipathologic disease. In giving therapy, geriatric patients often get some kind of medicine. The use of drugs in large quantities at the same time will be increase the potential for drug interactions that can harm patients. This study aims to determine the incidence of drug interactions in geriatric patients treated in hospital wards in RSUD ArifinAchmad Riau Pr…
Genital Wart (GW) is one of the most common clinical manifestations of human papillomavirus (HPV). Female Sex Workers (FSWs) have a high risk exposed to GW. This study aims to determine the relationship of knowledge and awareness about risk of transmission with the incidence of GW in FSWs in hotspot J Pekanbaru. The method use in this research was analytical method with cross sectional approach…
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a metabolic disease that has 2 main targets of treatment, they are keeping the glucose levels within normal range, and preventing complications. One way to achieve these targets is to monitor your blood glucose levels regularly. The purpose of this research is to know the description of blood glucose monitoring consisting of fasting blood glucose, HbA1C, and self monit…
Low Back Pain (LBP) is defined as pain on the lower back, can be local, radicular or both. LBP is the oftenly-discovered case in hospitals with the main symptom of pain in the lumbar or lumbo-sacral and is often followed by the referred pain towards the legs. One of the risk factors that potentially causes LBP is a high body mass index (BMI). Being overweight can increase the load on the spine …
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a Gram-negative bacteria that can cause infection, especially in immunocompromised patient. Multidrug resistance Pseudomonas aeruginosa is bacteria that resistance to at least three class of antibiotic. The objective of this study was to determine the risk factors of multidrug resistance Pseudomonas aeruginosa in ArifinAchmad General Hospital, Riau Province. The design…
Wildfire has become a problem which is affecting any sector of life such as worsening lung function. The objective of this study was to describe lung function of wild firefighters in Kampar Regency firefighters department. The study was done with descriptive cross sectional. The sample of this study was wild firefighters in Kampar Regency firefighters department with total sampling methods.…
Acne vulgaris is a chronic inflammatory disease of the pilosebaceous follicle with clinical manifestations are open and closed comedones, papules, pustules, nodes and cysts. Acne vulgaris lesions can cause disruption to the quality of life of a person who experienced because it affects the appearance, confidence and emotional stress. The purpose of this study was to determine the correlation of…
Soybean is one of those food that contains isoflavone. Isoflavone is an antioxidant that can improve lipid profile especially in hyperlipidemic condition. Fermentation of soybean on the production of tempeh can increase amount of aglycone isoflavone quantity which has the best bioavailability among other isoflavones. The objective of this study is to compare the effect of soybean and tempeh sus…
Bacteriuria is a condition where there is a presence ofbacteria in urine. The occurance of bacteriuria can be caused by the usage ofurinary indwelling catheter, mainly on hospitalized patient. Bacteriuria can become urinary tract infection (UTI), mainly catheter associated UTI. Patient with bacteriuria that become catheter associated UTI requires antibacterial for therapy.Urine culture and anti…
Information literacy skills required to be information literate require an understanding of: a need for information, the resources available, how to find information and evaluate the results, how to work with or exploit result, ethics and responsibility of use how to communicate or share the findings and how to manage the findings. Problem-based learning is a learning approach that uses complex…
Menopause is a natural process in a woman's life that causes symptoms and potentially affects their quality of life. This study was conducted to determine the quality of life of postmenopausal women in Tresna Werdha Khusnul Khotimah Social Institution Pekanbaru in 2016. This study was a descriptive study using cross-sectional approach. This study used Menopause Specific Quality of Life Question…
Indonesia is a second country with burden pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) cases worldwide in 2015. Case notification rate (CNR) of Riau Province is low especially in Siak Regency which is 73 cases in 100.000 people in 2014. Private general practitioners (PGPs) become the pillar in managing pulmonary TB cases. This study was a descriptive study with cross sectional approach using questionnaire to de…
Acute diarrhea is an excretion of a lower consistency faeces with an increase in frequency of defecation that occurs at least 3 times a day within 7 days without exceeding 14 days. This research aimed to determine the profile of pharmacological therapy on children with acute diarrhea at clinic X in Pekanbaru within period of January - December 2015. The research was done in a descriptively way.…
Estrogen levels slowly declining after menopause experience. Decreased estrogen levels will be followed by physical and psychological disorder that causes physical activity of postmenopausal woman tend to be limited even depend on others. Descriptive study with cross sectional approach was conducted to identify the physical activity of postmenopausal women in nursing home Khusnul Khotimah Pekan…
Gas station is public infrastructure from PT. Pertamina to fulfill people’s need of gasoline. Gasoline is a mixture of more than 500 volatile hydrocarbon compounds. Most concerned hydrocarbon compounds in research on health problems due to exposure to gasoline is benzene. Inhalation of benzene 300 ppm for 7 days could induce apoptosis changes in lung parenchyma. One of the gas station workers…
Indonesia is the second highest nation in the world with the cases of pulmonary tuberculosis. Riau province has not been able to achieve the indicators in TB program. Tuberculosis case detection rate (CDR) in Riau which is still below the target. International Standards for Tuberculosis Care (ISTC) is the standards TB treatment setting by WHO since 2006, but there are still many private general…