Twenty-Day Catgut.

Twenty-One-Day-Fever in Children

To the Editor of " The Indian Medical Gazette. " Dear Sir, ?I am induced to write these few lines, simply because I have never come across this disease before either in children or in adults during my residence here for the last seven years. And now within the last three months only no less than eighteen children have been brought iThder my direct treatment for this disease which lam sure is an...

Silk, Catgut, and Wound Infections *

Whether absorbable or non-absorbable suture material should be used in the repair of wounds has long been a highly controversial subject. Popular favor has swung from one extreme to the other repeatedly in the last century. Lord Lister was responsible for the initial popularity of catgut, just as Kocher was one of the first to abandon its use in favor of a non-absorbable material, i.e., silk. H...

Buried Silk, Catgut and Strabismus Sutures.

Twenty-Eight-Day Mortality of Blunt Traumatic Brain Injury and Co-Injuries Requiring Mechanical Ventilation

OBJECTIVE This paper aims to assess the impact of co-injuries and consequent emergency surgical interventions and nosocomial pneumonia on the 28-day mortality of patients with severe traumatic brain injuries (TBIs). SUBJECTS AND METHODS One hundred and seventy-seven patients with TBI admitted to the emergency trauma intensive care unit at the Clinical Center of Serbia for more than 48 h were ...

Twenty-five facts about kidney disease in Singapore: in remembrance of World Kidney Day.

World Kidney Day is a joint initiative of the International Society of Nephrology and other nephrology organisations, which will be observed annually on the second Thursday of March throughout the world. Initiated in 2006, its purpose is to increase awareness of chronic kidney disease (CKD), its associated cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, and to draw attention to the urgent global need f...