The unequal surgical wound

Surgical wound infection.

OBJECTIVE: To review the risk factors for surgical wound infection; the use of prophylactic antibiotics in the prevention of wound infection; and the benefits of wound surveillance programmes to reduce the rate of surgical wound infection. DATA SOURCES: Medline literature search and review of published work on surgical wound infection, and the references cited in them. STUDY SELECTION: Critical...

Surgical wound infections.

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[Surgical wound treatment].

Topical Antimicrobials and the Open Surgical Wound.

BACKGROUND Topical antiseptic and antibiotic agents have been used for the prevention of surgical site infections since Joseph Lister's original research on this subject. Although these agents are used extensively in clinical practice, evidence to support the use of topical antimicrobial agents remains limited. PATIENTS AND METHODS The world literature on the use of antiseptic and antibiotic ...

Diphtheria in a Surgical Wound

Mrs. M., aged 23 years, healthy-looking female, pregnant 5 months, was operated on by us during September, 1931, for tuberculous caries of the left rib. oix inches of this rib were removed from its chondrocostal junction backwards: the entire macroscopically diseased area with a clear two inches of apparenttynealthv pone as well was removed. The wound healed by first intention. Six weeks later ...