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VOLUME 30 | NUMBER 04 | APRIL 2013

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04|2013CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATIONDelayed ejaculation: a management challenge Delayed ejaculation and anejaculation are probably the least understood of the male sexual dysfunctions.

MIDDLE EAST REVIEW Significance of Nutrition Assessment and Nutrition Screeningin Determining Nutrition Status and Predicting Complications Among Patients with Liver Cirrhosis

IN THE MEDICINE Summary of Antibiotic Treatments in AdultsDose regimens for common bacterial infections.

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Asthma Committee Vice President of the Saudi Pediatric

Association Previous Dean of the Faculty of

Medicine, King Saud University

Prof. Mansour M. al-nozha, MD, FRCP, FACC, FESC Professor of Medicine and consultant

Cardiologist President, Taibah University, Madinah

Munawwarah, Saudi Arabia

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Professor and Consultant Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases &

Rheumatology at Kuwait University. Practices Pediatrics at Mubarak

Teaching Hospital.

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ning and CME Program, Jeddah. Member of the Saudi Society of Family

Medicine and of Pediatric.

Prof. Galal lotfi, MD, MRCOG Professor Ob. & Gynecology Canal Suez

University Head department Obstetrics &

Gynecology, Suez Canal University.

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THE MULTIDISCIPLINARY PEER-REVIEWED CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION JOURNAL

ARTICLESVOLUME 30 | NUMBER 04 | April 2013

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Summary of Antibiotic Treatments in AdultsDose regimens for common bacterial infections. Suspected menin-gococcal disease meningitis with non-blanching rash/meningococcal

septicaemia

Significance of Nutrition Assessment and Nutrition Screening in Determining Nutrition Status and Predicting Complications Among

Patients with Liver CirrhosisIn patients with Protein energy malnutrition (PEM), a common complication among patients with liver cirrhosis, most random-ized studies have shown a significant increase in morbidity and

mortality in relation to the severity of PEM.

Delayed ejaculation: a management challengeDelayed ejaculation and anejaculation are probably the least understood of the male sexual dysfunctions. However, their impact is significant because they may result in a lack of sexual fulfilment

for both the man and his partner.

For Migraine patients...

Dose:

1-3 sachets/day

Effective, fast acting acute oral therapy for migraine-headache attacks.1

38% of Cmax reached within 5 minutes.2

Peak plasma values reached after 10 minutes.2

Well-tolerated.1

CATAFAST 50 mg powder for oral soluonImportant note: Before prescribing, please consult full prescribing informaon. Presentation: Diclofenac potassium: powder for oral soluon in sachets of 50 mg. Indicaons: Short-term treatment in the following acute condions: post-traumac pain, inammaon and swelling, e.g. due to sprains, post-operave pain, inammaon and swelling, e.g. following dental or orthopaedic surgery, painful and/or inammatory condions in gynaecology, e.g. primary dysmenorrhoea or adnexis, migraine aacks, painful syndromes of the vertebral column, non-arcular rheumasm, as an adjuvant in severe painful inammatory infecons of the ear, nose or throat. Dosage: Dose to be individually adjusted, lowest effecve dose to be given for the shortest duraon. Adults: 50 to 150 mg daily in divided doses. For dysmenorrhoea and migraine aacks: up to 200 mg daily. Adolescents aged 14 and over: 50 to 100 mg daily in divided doses. Not recommended in children and adolescents below 14 years of age. Contraindications: Acve gastric or intesnal ulcer, bleeding or perforaon; known hypersensivity to diclofenac or to any of the excipients, to aspirin or other non-steroidal an-inammatory drugs (NSAIDs); last trimester of pregnancy; severe hepac, renal or cardiac failure. Warnings/Precautions: Avoid use with other systemic NSAIDs including COX-2 inhibitors. Risk of gastrointesnal (GI) bleeding, perforaon or serious allergic reacons; to be disconnued if these condions occur. Risk of allergic reacons. May mask signs and symptoms of infecon. Cauon recommended in paents with symptoms/history of GI disease, asthma, seasonal allergic rhinis, chronic pulmonary diseases, elderly or impaired hepac funcon (including porphyria), ulcerave colis or Crohns disease. Cauon when used concomitantly with corcosteroids, ancoagulants, an-platelets agents or SSRIs. Cauon while driving or using machines. Should not be used in the rst and second trimester of pregnancy and by breast-feeding mothers. Not recommended to use in women aempng to conceive as it may impair female ferlity. Combined use with protecve agents to be considered in paents with history of ulcer, elderly, and those requiring low dose aspirin. Monitoring of liver funcon and blood counts recommended during prolonged period. Monitoring of renal funcon recommended in paents with history of hypertension, impaired cardiac or renal funcon, extracellular volume depleon, the elderly, paents treated with diurecs or drugs that impact renal funcon. Monitoring recommended in paents with defect of haemostasis. As Catafast contains a source of phenylalanine, may be harmful for paents with phenylketonuria. Beware of severe uid retenon and oedema. Interactions: Cauon with concomitant use of diurecs and anhypertensives (e.g. beta blockers, ACE inhibitors), methotrexate, other NSAIDs and corcosteroids, SSRIs. Monitoring recommended for paents receiving ancoagulants, an-platelet agents as well as blood glucose level if used concomitantly with andiabecs. Monitoring of serum lithium and digoxin levels recommended if used concomitantly. Dose of diclofenac to be reduced in paents receiving ciclosporin. Interacons with concomitant use of quinolones anbacterials, CYP2C9 inhibitors (e.g. sulnpyrazone, voriconazole). Monitoring of phenytoin plasma concentraons is recommended if used concomitantly. Adverse reactions: Common undesirable effects are: Headache, dizziness, vergo, nausea, voming, diarrhoea, dyspepsia, abdominal pain, atulence, anorexia, transaminases increased, rash. Rare undesirable effects are: Hypersensivity, anaphylacc and anaphylactoid reacons (including hypotension and shock), somnolence, asthma (including dyspnoea), gastris, gastrointesnal haemorrhage, haematemesis, melaena, diarrhoea haemorrhagic, gastrointesnal ulce