BACKGROUND Colonized patients are a reservoir for transmission of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs). Not many studies have examined the effectiveness of daily chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) bathing under routine care conditions. We present a descriptive analysis of the trends of MDRO colonization following implementation of daily CHG bathing under routine clinical conditions in an intensive ...

Portuguese freshwater reservoirs are important socio-economic resources, namely for recreational use. National legislation concerning bathing waters does not include mandatory levels or guidelines for cyanobacteria and cyanotoxins. This is an issue of concern since cyanotoxin-based evidence is insufficient to change the law, and the collection of scientific evidence has been hampered by the lac...

BACKGROUND Chlorhexidine showering is frequently recommended as an important preoperative measure to prevent surgical site infection (SSI). However, the efficacy of this approach is uncertain. METHODS A search of electronic databases was undertaken to identify prospective controlled trials evaluating whole-body preoperative bathing with chlorhexidine versus placebo or no bath for prevention o...

Introduction Carbon dioxide bathing, including foot bathing, has long been used for therapeutic purposes in Europe and elsewhere. Yet, much remains unknown about its precise physiological effects, and very few basic or clinical studies have been conducted to date. We previously reported that the optimum free carbon dioxide concentration and the optimum water temperature in an artificial CO2 foo...

Digital dermatitis is a major problem in modern dairy production because of decreased animal welfare and financial losses. Individual cow treatments are often seen as too time consuming by farmers, and walk-through hoof baths have therefore been used extensively to control digital dermatitis. For decades, copper sulfate hoof baths have been used to treat and prevent digital dermatitis. Copper s...

Acute mania is a form of madness that has long been regarded as a type of its kind, from the rapidity of its course, the variety of its symptoms, and the violence by which it is characterized. It is, however, consoling, in the midst of the formidable symptoms to which it gives rise, to remember that this kind of insanity is more rapidly cured than any other, especially in its most acute stage. ...

About 1 p.m., on the afternoon of the 8th of September, I "was summoned to see one of the hospital servants, a Goorgah of H. M.'s 8th Bombay N. I., "who, it was alleged, had poisoned himself. On arriving at the hospital I found the would-be suicide lying on a cot in the medical ward, in a high state of excitement, and evidently suffering from very acute pain; his countenance wore an anxious exp...

The equivalence between a noise source in combination with a resistance, and a thermal bath, is a part of fluctuation theory. This observation was the motivation for the author’s 1960 calculation of the power flow between modes of vibration excited by random noise sources. The resulting relation between power flow and uncoupled energy of vibration is therefore more than a thermal analogy; it is...

This study aimed to clarify the practices of skincare such as bathing, face-washing, and using products, among older adults living in nursing homes Japan. From July August 2017, questionnaire surveys were mailed 343 long-term care facilities one prefecture Japan, 105 returned survey. Management policies on use facial products was significantly associated with number resident/caregiver ratio. Me...

Background Surgical site infections (SSIs) are wound infections that occur after invasive (surgical) procedures. Preoperative bathing or showering with an antiseptic skin wash product is a well-accepted procedure for reducing skin bacteria (microflora). It is less clear whether reducing skin microflora leads to a lower incidence of surgical site infection. Objectives To review the evidence for ...