Fifteen volunteers lay supine for 3 hours in an empty operating theatre. Five rectangular areas were marked on the abdomen of each volunteer and a different antiseptic preparation was applied to four of the five areas. These were: 3 min painting with chlorhexidine in 70 per cent alcohol; 3 min painting with povidoneiodine in 70 percent alcohol; I min painting with 70 percent isopropyl alcohol a...

The objective of the present study was to compare the ability of chlorhexidine and povidone-iodine to cause cessation of lactation in Staphylococcus aureus-infected mammary quarters, assess milk production in the treated quarter in the subsequent lactation, and evaluate whether microbiological cure was obtained. Fourteen mid- to late-lactation Holstein-Friesian dairy cattle from the Washington ...

For author affiliations and current addresses, see end of text. C of blood cultures is common because microflora are usually present on the skin. The misinformation that results from contamination of blood cultures may have deleterious consequences. Therefore, it is important that blood cultures be collected by using a procedure that minimizes contamination (1). In general, preparation of the s...

The aim of this study was to prevent eschar formation in thermally injured patients during the use of povidoneiodine ointment by modifying therapeutic protocols depending on normal events in healing process. Sixty thermally injured patients of different age groups, sex, and occupation with different burn sizes were involved in the study, allocated to two groups. Group A was made up of 17 patien...

STUDY DESIGN Prospective, single-blinded, randomized study. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the efficacy of dilute betadine irrigation of spinal surgical wounds in prevention of postoperative wound infection. SUMMARY AND BACKGROUND Deep wound infection is a serious complication of spinal surgery that can jeopardize patient outcomes and increase costs. Povidoneiodine is a widely used antiseptic with ...

Many studies have reported that zinc plasma levels significantly decrease after a burn, leading to zinc deficiency, and that increased free radical generation and decreased natural antioxidant may negatively affect wound healing and burn outcome in general. Targeting of these changes is considered an important strategy in the treatment of burns in an attempt to improve burn outcome in the clini...

To the Editor—We read with great interest the articles by Noorani et al in the British Journal of Surgery and by Lee et al in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. The authors have published almost simultaneously two systematic reviews of what is described as comparisons of chlorhexidine versus povidone-iodine for preoperative skin antisepsis. On the basis of their analyses, the authors ...

O phthalmologists practising in the developed world at the beginning of the 21st century may be surprised to learn that visual loss from ophthalmia neonatorum was once a major public health problem. In England in the mid-1800s, there was a hospital devoted solely to the lavage of infants with gonococcal ophthalmia. Fortunately, the work of Crede, who developed prophylaxis with 2% silver nitrate...

The objectives of this study were to characterize burned patients according to epidemiological and clinical variables and identify the treatments, invasive procedures and complications. This is a retrospective, descriptive and quantitative study. The sample consisted of 138 burned patients hospitalized in a teaching hospital from January 2003 to December 2007, in Uberaba-MG. Of the 138 hospital...

INTRODUCTION By definition pyometra is a pus-filled uterus. Pyometra is typically a post-oestral syndrome in adult bitches associated with a variety of clinical and pathological manifestations of genital and multisystemic disease. Pyometra is most commonly associated with polydipsia, polyuria, abdominal distension, vomition, poor appetite, weight loss and anaemia. A purulent vaginal discharge m...