Surgery — Antiseptic Vagaries

Surgical Work in the State Hospital of Kashmere

Dressing. ? In moat cases strict antiseptic precautions were taken. In the surgical wards of this hospital, Listerism was seldom practised before. Having observed during my studentdays the most excellent results of antiseptic surgery in the first Surgeon's wards of the Medical College Hospital and subsequently iu the wards of the Edinburgh Royal infirmary, the very scene of Listerian labour and...

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Joseph Lister was the pioneer of antiseptic surgery (Fig. 1). In the late 19th century, postoperative sepsis accounted for the death of almost half of the patients undergoing major surgery. Building on the work of Pasteur, Lister promoted the use of carbolic acid when operating. Antiseptic surgery became the norm and earned him the title ‘Father of Modern Surgery’. Just as antiseptic surgery re...

To bathe or not to bathe with chlorhexidine gluconate: is it time to take a stand for preadmission bathing and cleansing?

any health care facilities have incorporated an antiseptic skin cleansing protocol, often referred to as preoperative bathing and cleansing, to reduce the endogenous microbial burden on the skin of patients undergoing elective surgery, with the aim of reducing the risk of surgical site infections (SSIs). According to a recent study by Injean et al, 91% of all facilities that perform coronary ar...

Worboys surgery Joseph Lister and the performance of antiseptic

Suprathel-acetic acid matrix versus acticoat and aquacel as an antiseptic dressing: an in vitro study.

BACKGROUND The treatment of burn wounds is still a challenge regarding the management of antiseptic wound conditioning. Especially, in the United States, silver-containing dressings, such as Acticoat and Aquacel are frequently used. Because silver-containing dressings have well-known drawbacks such as an antimicrobial lack against Pseudomonas aeruginosa, we sought to develop an alternative dres...