NOTE ON AN OPERATION FOR PHLEBITIS WITH THROMBOSIS.

Phlebitis and Thrombosis

Note on an Unusual Complication Met with during Operation for Punctured Wound of Abdomen

v practice and, whilst going at a gallop, dropped his weapon. The horse stepped on the butt end and the point flew up, penetrated his saddle wallet and entered his abdomen just above the pubes, the weapon breaking off about eighteen inches down. The broken shaft and steel portion was withdrawn from abdomen, and the patient sent in to hospital at once. An hour after the accident his condition wa...

Note on Steinach II Operation for the Enlarged Prostate

SOME twelve months ago I was ask;ed by a patient for details of tIhe operationi of Steinaclh II, andci its value, and I had to conifess that I had never heard of it. Through the patient I was put in communication with a well-known Englishmzall who himself had had this operation performed, and was so satisfied that he was urging all males of the prostate age with obstructive symptoms to have thi...

Gangrene associated with thrombo-phlebitis.

[Infectious or noninfectious phlebitis: lessons from a an interventional programm on phlebitis associated to peripheral venous catheter].

BACKGROUND There is no consensus definition to distinguish infectious from non-infectious phlebitis associated to peripheral venous catheter. AIMS To evaluate the impact of an intervention program on the rate of infectious (those associated to bacteremia or local purulent discharge) and non-infectious phlebitis (the rest) and identify differential features. METHODS Interventional study deve...