PUERPERAL SEPSIS

Puerperal Sepsis: A Review

The Prevention of Puerperal Sepsis.

Intestinal obstruction due to a gall-stone is rare, but in 1914 Wagner16 collected 334 cases. The patients are usually fat women over 50 years of age, females being five times more numerous than male sufferers. The onset is sudden with vomiting, and at first pain and collapse are not prominent. The intestine, though obstructed, is not strangulated, as in a hernia, and since its vascular supply ...

Irregular Manifestations of Puerperal Sepsis

Puerperal sepsis: a microbiological study.

Fifty cases of puerperal sepsis in women from various hospitals in Faisalabad were included in the study. The frequency of various organisms was Escherichia coli 58%, Streptococcus Pyogenes 44%, Staphylococcus aureus 28%, Aerobacter aerogenes 14%, Streptococcus pneumoniae 12%, Staphylococcus epidermidis 10%, Streptococcus faecalis 8%, Candida albicans 6%, Streptococcus mitis (Viridans group) 6%...

Chloromycetin in Puerperal Sepsis. A Case Report