The problem of prevention and treatment of postoperative purulent complications in Urology is still a current issue as of today. To a substantial degree this is related to the increasing number of complex surgeries using modern technologies, the increasing volume and duration of surgical interventions, accompanied by increased tissue trauma and blood loss, which contributes to the development o...

In a randomised controlled prospective trial, different antibiotic regimens were evaluated as prophylaxis in wound infection following elective surgical procedures. Four hundred and four consecutive cases were divided in four groups. Two groups were allotted two different conventional postoperative antibiotic regimens while the fourth group received short term perioperative antibiotic; group on...

orthopaedic procedures. In the unlikely event of contamination of the system, deep wound infection could occur, jeopardising the operation. We have prospectively studied 50 patients who underwent elective and orthopaedic trauma procedures during which a suction system was used. At the end of each procedure the suction catheter tip was sent for culture and microbiology. The suction tips showed b...

results scalding was the predominant cause of burns in both categories of patients. in 19 (61.3%) burn wound infection patients, the burns were due to a scald. a significant difference was found for the nesfatin, crp, and wbc levels between the patients and the control group (p = 0.000). a significant difference was also determined between the nesfatin, crp, and wbc figures at the time of hospi...

To compare two tension free techniques, darning versus mesh repair in cases of inguinal hernia. Prospective study was done in Tikrit Teaching Hospital. Ninety-six patients with nonobstructive unilateral reducible and primary inguinal hernia 48 patients operate with mesh and other 48 patients operate with darn repair. The two techniques where compared with respect to effectiveness, post-operativ...

Purpose Total hip arthroplasty (THA) is a successful surgery for the treatment of hip osteoarthritis; however, the risk of a post-operative prosthetic joint infection (PJI) remains at 1% to 2%. The purpose of this study was to investigate the safety profile of using vancomycin powder (VP) to reduce infection rates by reviewing acute postoperative complications. Materials and Methods A retrosp...

BACKGROUND Different methods for dressing of donor site of skin graft in burn patients have similarly pain, limitation of mobility of donor site and local complications such as infection and scar. Amniotic membrane has used for improvement of healing in some wounds. Accordingly in this study amnion was used as biologic dressing for donor site of skin graft to evaluate it’s efficacy in improveme...

Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are often on multiple medications to control disease activity and these medications may have significant toxicities, including effects on wound healing. Deep surgical site infections are of particular concern when prostheses such as arthroplasties are implanted, given the morbidity, mortality, and expense associated with prosthetic joint infection. Wound ...

Background: Despite the advancement in sterilization methods, aseptic and antiseptic practices, still post-operative surgical site infections are a dilemma for practicing surgeons, not only that it increases morbidity mortality of patient but also money expenditure post op hospital stay. Incidence each hospitals is thereby important so as to have check improving quality care. Materials methods:...

OBJECTIVE To identify risk factors for sternal wound infection following coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG), and to compare early and mid-term survival outcome. METHODS Data were prospectively collected for 4228 patients who underwent CABG surgery between April 1997 and March 2001. One hundred and nine (2.6%) patients developed sternal wound infection. We used logistic regression to identi...