Post operative wound infection is considered as a surgeon’s nightmare. Before the mid 19 century, surgical patients commonly developed post operative purulent discharge from their incisions, followed by overwhelming sepsis, and often death. It was not until the late 1860s, after Joseph Lister introduced the principles of antisepsis that postoperative infections morbidity decreased substantially...

The influence of prophylactic tinidazole therapy on vaginal carriage rates of anaerobes and the development of post-operative anaerobic infection was studied in 100 women undergoing abdominal hysterectomy. Tinidazole prophylaxis (50 patients) led to a decrease of anaerobe vaginal carriage rate from 56% pre-operatively to 10 and 30% on the third and seventh post-operative days, respectively. In ...

Backgrounds/Aims The impact of pre-operative biliary stenting (PBS) in patients undergoing pancreaticoduodenectomy on post-operative infectious complications is unclear. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between PBS and post-operative infectious complications, to determine the effect of PBS on bile bacteriology, and to correlate the bacteriology of bile and...

Methods Baseline assemnet made on wound infection rate of 100 patients before the impelemenation of hand hygiene using the WHO accreditted alcohol based hand rub technique. Six monthe after, surgical site wound infection in 100 pateints of similar profile is reaudited. Wound infection is declared if there are clinical signs of wound infection from day 3 on post operative course. Wounds already ...