PUERPERAL INFECTION

Puerperal and intrapartum group A streptococcal infection.

OBJECTIVE To determine the demographic and clinical variables characteristic of non-epidemic intrapartum or puerperal group A streptococcal (GAS) infection. METHODS The records of 47 patients diagnosed with intrapartum or puerperal GAS infection over a 6 1/2 year period at Hadassah-University Hospital-Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem were reviewed. Data regarding 25,811 women, the general population of ...

The Source of Streptococcal Infection in Puerperal Fever

A Note on the Treatment of Puerperal Infection

? ? the medical profession, who never fail to Irripress on their patients rhe necessity for b.e^uring qualified medical aid at the time of delivery. But, apart from the uneducated masses, it is amazing how educated Indians will shew a total disregard of this useful advice: the result is a deplorable infantile mortality, and often a tedious puerperim which not infrequently also ends in the death...

Puerperal Septicæmia

Dr. GkddES presents the above admirable thesis based upon the fact that puerperal fever occurs more frequently in the practice of medical practitioners in Great Britain than in the practice of certified midwives, and one must confess that he has proved his case in this book. Puerperal fever, unfortunately, does not seem to get any less in its incidence, and it would appear that while the majori...

Puerperal Fever