Prophylaxis of ophthalmia neonatorum

Prophylaxis of Ophthalmia Neonatorum

(1) Purulent conjunctivitis affecting newborn babies is not invariably due to the gonococcus but may be caused by streptococci, staphylococci, or even B. coli and B. proteus. (2) Blindness from this cause in England has been reduced from approximately 25 per cent. of all blind children in 1920 to 9 per cent. in 1940. (3) This improvement began when the use of the Crede method of prophylaxis wit...

The Prophylaxis of Ophthalmia Neonatorum

Alfred Graefe.?"Ueber caustische und antiseptische Behandlung der Conjunctivalentziindungen mit besonderer Beriicksichtigung der Blenorrhcea Neonatorum," in Volkmanris Sammlung Klinischer Vortrcege, No. 192, 1881. Abegg.?" Zur Yerlilitung der Augenentziindung Neugeborener," in Archiv fur Gyncekologie, xvii. 502, 1881. Olshausen.?" Zur Prophylaxe der Conjunctivalblenorrhoea Neugeborener," in Cen...

Povidone-iodine prophylaxis of ophthalmia neonatorum.

O phthalmologists practising in the developed world at the beginning of the 21st century may be surprised to learn that visual loss from ophthalmia neonatorum was once a major public health problem. In England in the mid-1800s, there was a hospital devoted solely to the lavage of infants with gonococcal ophthalmia. Fortunately, the work of Crede, who developed prophylaxis with 2% silver nitrate...

New aspects in prophylaxis of ophthalmia neonatorum (Credé prophylaxis).

Ophthalmia Neonatorum

Ihis work won for its author the Middleinore Piize of the British Medical Association in 1907. It contains the most complete account there is in the English language of a preventible disease winch is still responsible for a large amount of the blindness in the world. The book abounds with instructive tables taken from all available souices illustrating the prevalence, etiology, pievention and t...