Abstract Aims National guidance states that prolonged treatment of gentamicin must be discussed with an infection specialist or microbiology if it is to continue beyond 3 4 days. This project aimed audit prescribing in a General Surgical ward, against national guidelines and improve practice. Methods Data was collected prospectively over the course seven surgical admissions were analysed for an...

With improvements in medical technology, more and larger surgical procedures are performed in haemophiliac patients, but rarely reported in the surgical literature. A retrospective study from a 10 year period from one referral centre identified a total of 68 operations performed in haemophiliac patients. The levels of the defective factors were carefully monitored preoperatively and postoperati...

IN this year's annual review of general surgery, the author has once again picked out a number of topics which appear to be particularly highlighted in current interest. These can be assessed by the bulk of publications dealing with them, their being featured as subjects for symposia and meetings, and the simple fact that they crop up in discussions when two or three surgeons are gathered toget...