The design and preparation of wound dressings that redress the protease imbalance in chronic wounds is an important goal of wound healing and medical materials science. Chronic wounds contain high levels of tissue and cytokine-destroying proteases including matrix metalloprotease and neutrophil elastase. Thus, the lowering of excessive protease levels in the wound environment by wound dressing ...

Retained foreign bodies after surgery have the potential to cause serious medical complications for patients and bring fourth serious medico-legal consequences for surgeons and hospitals. Standard operating room protocols have been adopted to reduce the occurrence of the most common retained foreign bodies. Despite these precautions, radiolucent objects and uncounted components/pieces of instru...

Gossypiboma, or a retained surgical sponge, is a rare condition, and it can occur after any surgical intervention that requires use of internal swabs. A case of an eight-year-old girl is presented, who had right minithoracotomy for ASD closure. She was finally diagnosed to have a retained surgical sponge in the right pleural cavity.

BACKGROUND During nasotracheal intubation it is important to have proper pretreatment for nasal mucosa constriction and nasal cavity expanding. Nasal packing of epinephrine gauze is widely used as well as xylometazoline. The aim of this study was to compare and evaluate the efficacy of prophylactic intranasal spray of xylometazoline against epinephrine gauze packing in expanding the nasal cavit...

Background: The surgical count process is currently the recommended strategy for preventing unintentionally retained items (RSIs) in Australia. Despite this, RSIs still occur and remain an internationally recognised issue sentinel event associated with morbidity mortality. There are numerous new emerging strategies to prevent inadvertent RSIs, apart from count, many involve use of technology. T...

Retained surgical sponge or gossypiboma is a term used to describe retained swab in the body after operation. There are different materials that can be left abdomen during operation such as sponge, artery forceps, scissors, and pieces of broken instrument. Mop most commonly foreign body. Inadvertent retention often requires another operation, increasing morbidity mortality these patients. Despi...

Objective To compare the clinical efficacy and safety of oil gauze silver dressing and silver ions dressing on diabetic ulcers in elderly outpatients. Methods Twenty-two patients with Type-2 diabetic foot ulcers were included in the study conducted at Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital between April 2013 and April 2014. At the time of enrolment they were divided into the silver ions and oil gauze si...

abdominal pregnancies are very uncommon and are misdiagnosed in half of the cases. we describe a case of abdominal pregnancy, which was misdiagnosed as pregnancy in a bicornuate uterus.the patient underwent operation urgently because of unstable hemodynamics. the spontaneously separated placenta and its bleeding site in the douglas pouch were seen. we could not use sutures for hemostasis so, th...