BATHS FOR BURNS

Preoperative chlorhexidine baths/showers: for or against?

Surgical site infections (SSIs) are a major health care-related problem in Brazil. SSIs are considered the third most prevalent sort of infection in our country. A national study carried out by the Ministry of Health of Brazil in 1999 found SSI in 11% of all surgical procedures analyzed.1 The recent review article by Chlebicki et al,2 whose metaanalysis suggested no benefit of using chlorhexidi...

Buxton: Its Baths and Climate

Decoherence by engineered quantum baths

Davide Rossini, Tommaso Calarco, 3 Vittorio Giovannetti, Simone Montangero, 4 and Rosario Fazio 1 NEST-CNR-INFM & Scuola Normale Superiore, piazza dei Cavalieri 7, I-56126 Pisa, Italy Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Trento and BEC-CNR-INFM, I-38050 Povo, Italy ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA Institut für Theoretische Festkörperphysik, Universit...

Foot infections in swimming baths.

A 10% random sample of all bathers at a public swimming bath were examined for tinea pedis and verruca.The overall incidence of tinea pedis was 8.5% and of verruca 4.8%. The incidence of tinea pedis in 205 male adults was 21.5%, in 288 boys 6.3%, in 60 adult females 3.3%, and in 220 girls 0.9%. The incidence of verruca in juveniles ranged from 4.2% in boys to 10.5% in girls.It was clear that bo...

Avian Assemblages at Bird Baths: A Comparison of Urban and Rural Bird Baths in Australia

Private gardens provide habitat and resources for many birds living in human-dominated landscapes. While wild bird feeding is recognised as one of the most popular forms of human-wildlife interaction, almost nothing is known about the use of bird baths. This citizen science initiative explores avian assemblages at bird baths in private gardens in south-eastern Australia and how this differs wit...