TREATMENT OF SEPTIC WOUNDS BY CONTINUOUS OXYGENATION OR IRRIGATION

Local Chemotherapy with Primary Closure of Septic Wounds by Means of Drainage and Irrigation Cannulae

Marius Nygaard Smith-Petersen was born in Grimstad, Norway, of a prominent merchant marine family in 1886 [2]. He came to the States with his mother in 1903 and, initially unable to speak English, completed high school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1906. He then attended the University of Chicago (1906–07) and graduated from the University of Wisconsin (1910) and the Harvard Medical School (1914)...

Prevention and Treatment of Septic Wounds in Warfare

logically speaking no wound is absolutely aseptic? consists of (1) tissue repair and (2) the destruction of any living organisms in the wound and the neutralisation of their toxins: this latter is determined by the number of organisms in the wound, their virulence, and also by the amount of damage suffered by the surrounding tissues, i.e., cellular damage and disintegration inflicted at the tim...

Intravenous Iodine in the Treatment of Septic Wounds

Slow continuous dialysis treatment in septic shockcaused by acinetobacter

Results In CVVHF group only 1 patient, in the intermittent HD group 2 patients had died. The duration of mechanical ventilation was 32.3 ± 3.8 days in the HD group, while was 23.8 ± 5 .4 day in CVVHDF group. 3 patients who died had diabetes mellitus. APACHE II scores were significantly higher in the two groups. Repetitive operation due to anastomotic leakage was made in CVVHDF group 3 patients ...

Irrigation of the wounds in open fractures.

Modern principles for the treatment of open fractures include stabilisation of the bone and management of the soft tissues. Wound debridement and irrigation is thought to be the mainstay in reducing the incidence of infection. Although numerous studies on animals and humans have focused on the type of irrigation performed, little is known of the factors which influence irrigation. This paper ev...