COMPOUND DEPRESSED FRACTURES

The use of prophylactic systemic antibiotics in compound depressed skull fractures in infancy and childhood.

The authors described their experience with the use of prophylactic antibiotics in children with compound depressed skull fractures. The analysis of the results of the treatment of patients with or without systemic antibiotics and with or without the replacement of the bone fragments showed no difference in the infection rate, any one was the method used.

Osteomyelitis and Compound Fractures

COLLOID CHEMISTRY; PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS. By Jerome Alexander, M.Sc., Consulting Chemist and Chemical Engineer. Third Edition. D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., New York, 1929. pp. X+270. The author's treatment of principles occupies 75 pages, practical applications are given I58 pages, and there is a brief appendix entitled Experimental Suggestions or Laboratory Manual. This division of spa...

Case of Compound Depressed Fracture of Skull

perature 99*8?; one copious stool. 13tli.?Temperature 98-2?. 14th.?Temperature (J8*4?, wound suppurated, feels better. 4 P. M. temperature 99-2?. 15th.?Temperature 98-4? ; sits up in bed, looks cheerful. 4 P. M. temperature 103?, had slight shivering. Kith.?Temperature 100-8?, some swelling and tension?on the left side of the wound, could not sleep last night. 4 p. m. temperature 102-4?, had sl...

Fractures of the malar-zygomatic compound.

Fractures of the malar-zygomatic compound have in recent years emerged from relative obscurity and become one of the better known fractures seen in casualty departments and maxillofacial units. During the period from January 1950 to August 195I, I07 cases were treated in this unit at the Wythenshawe Hospital and an analysis of these cases is given in this paper. More car and motor-cycle acciden...

Compound Fractures Treated by Creolin Irrigation