Deep brain stimulation (DBS from the English acronym Deep Brain Stimulation) is a surgical treatment with the goal of reducing debilitating motor symptoms that characterize movement disorders such as Parkinson’s, dystonia, and essential tremor. It is also a procedure used to treat epilepsy, chronic pain, and obsessive-compulsive disorders.
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Risk factors, complications and prevention of salmonellosis
Normally, salmonella infection does not pose a life-threatening risk for healthy adults, but it can pose a life-threatening risk for those categories of patients such as infants or young children, elderly or transplant patients, pregnant women, or in patients undergoing surgery.