BACKGROUND The cause of death in burn patients after 48 hours of hospitalization has been reported to be bacterial infections. Recently, due to the compounds accelerating the healing process and the intense reduction of treatment side effects, medicinal plants are used to cure burn wound infections. This study aims to investigate the medicinal effect of the ethanolic extract of Scrophularia st...

introduction :   co 2 (carbon dioxide) laser application in circumcision, for cutting and coagulation, has been reported to have excellent results. also, tissue glue has been reported to have advantages over sutures for approximation of wound edges. most previous studies focused on comparisons between co 2 laser and scalpel, or between tissue glue and sutures. this study prospectively compared ...

Surgical site infections are common following surgical procedures, despite aseptic technique and prophylactic antibiotic use. Although gut commensals believed to limit certain in the intestine, an analogous role for skin has not been described. To identify bacteria with potential protect against infection, we characterized wound microbiome 52 patients who underwent cancer surgery healed without...

On 16 February 2002, a total of 26 people presented to the emergency department of the local hospital in the rural town of Collie in southwest Western Australia with many infected scratches and pustules distributed over their bodies. All of the patients had participated in a "mud football" competition the previous day, in which there had been ~100 participants. One patient required removal of a...

Five hundred and six clean minor surgical procedures were carried out in an emergency theatre. One theatre was used for both clean and septic conditions; clean cases preceding the septic lesions. Sepsis rates were assessed prospectively and complete follow-up was obtained in 491 patients. Four hundred and fifty (91.6%) patients achieved primary healing. Thirty (6.1%) patients developed a mild s...

Surgery is usually used to treat diabetic foot osteomyelitis (DFO), whether primarily or in cases in which antibiotics are not able to control infection. In many cases, the bone is only partially removed, which means that residual infection remains in the bone margins, and the wound is left open to heal by secondary intent. The use of culture-guided postoperative antibiotic treatment and adequa...

backgrounds: the aim of this study was to determine if preemptive local anesthesia yields better postoperative pain control than infiltration of local anesthesia at the time of wound closure. methods: forty patients aged between 1 and 10 years were randomly allocated to one of the two groups by using a sealed envelope technique. group 1 received 0.5 mg/kg bupivacaine 20 minutes before the incis...