A case-control study was carried out at a public teaching hospital in Recife, Pernambuco State, Brazil in 1997 to investigate risk factors among women who feel regret after undergoing sterilization through tubal ligation. The study compared sterilized women who had requested or undergone a tubal reversal with women who were also sterilized but had not undergone this surgery, nor had requested t...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy, safety, and acceptability of two monthly transcervical applications of quinacrine, 252 mg, and ibuprofen, 55.5 mg, as pellets for sterilization. DESIGN Prospective clinical study. SETTING Family planning clinic of a referral hospital. PATIENT(S) Two hundred normal women who requested sterilization and volunteered for this method. INTERVENTION(S) Each ...

some glaring examples of breakdown in sterilization (Savage, 1944; Walter, 1948; Howie and Timbury, 1956; Bowie 1955, 1957). More recently, stimulated by the original observations, administrators and hospital authorities are becoming increasingly conscious that the whole machinery of sterilization in hospitals needs a drastic overhaul (Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust, 1958; Medical Research...

In a large district maternity hospital 1,079 women patients were interviewed about the perceived need for surgical sterilization. Of the patients interviewed 3-7% had been booked for this procedure and a further 8-7% expressed a desire to undergo sterilization at the time of interview. This wish was not limited to European women but was frequently expressed among the immigrant groups. A sample ...

Received: April 18th, 2012 Accepted for Publication: May 13th, 2012 ABSTRACT -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Background: Given technological advances over the past few decades, female surgical sterilization has become a safe, convenient, easy, and highly effective birth control method for the long term. Objective: This study aims at...

In exploring the history of involuntary sterilization in California, I connect the approximately 20,000 operations performed on patients in state institutions between 1909 and 1979 to the federally funded procedures carried out at a Los Angeles County hospital in the early 1970s. Highlighting the confluence of factors that facilitated widespread sterilization abuse in the early 1970s, I trace p...

Since the laparoscope was introduced for sterilization there has been controversy about its safety. Advocates claim fewer thromboembolic and other complications, a shorter operating time, and a shorter stay in hospital. Antagonists emphasize serious complications such as diathermy of bowel and perforation of major vessels.' In Aberdeen, only five out of nine consultant gynaecologists use the me...

High speed instruments are versatile instruments used by clinicians of all specialties of dentistry. It is important for clinicians to understand the types of high speed handpieces available and the mechanism of working. The centers for disease control and prevention have issued guidelines time and again for disinfection and sterilization of high speed handpieces. This article presents the rece...

To evaluate the ability of ClO2 to decontaminate pathogens known to cause healthcare-associated infections in a hospital room strains of Acinetobacter baumannii, Escherichia coli, Enterococcus faecalis, Mycobacterium smegmatis, and Staphylococcus aureus were spot placed in duplicate pairs at 10 sites throughout a hospital room and then exposed to ClO2 gas. Organisms were collected and evaluated...