Electrocautery has become an indispensable tool in the operating room mainly to achieve bloodless surgical field. However, it does carry several risks including fire burn. Abundant fuels and oxidizer in operation theatre in the presence of electrocautery can easily get ignited, imposing serious risk to the patient and health professionals. This report of a case of surgical site burn injury due ...

Electroceutical Suture Microstructured fiber, reported in article number 2201854 by Louis A. van der Elst, Merve Gokce, and co-workers, autonomously induces an electric field to a wound, suppressing the proliferation of multiresistant bacteria. The weaved into gauze, spooled sponge, or used as surgical suture, provides non-drug, easy-to-produce enhancement antibiotic wound treatment.

A 33-year-old man, who had been operated on a congenital bridle 14 years ago, was admitted to our hospital for evaluation of a 3 month recurrent abdominal pain. CT scan and colonoscopy were performed in another medical centre, in which a chronic inflammatory process surrounding a foreign body was described in the right colon. He was referred to our endoscopy unit, as a tertiary reference hospit...

Polyurethane sheet is a pure white, soft, and flexible synthetic sponge with a mechanical strength and abrasion resistance equivalent or even superior to other sponge materials. Our study indicates that the blood absorption power of the polyurethane sheet is equivalent to that of the cotton gauze even after repeated use, and it has the potential to decrease the total amount of sponge usage. Fur...

Numerous foreign bodies, such as surgical gauze, pads and instruments, and other items, have been left behind in the abdominal cavity during open surgeries. These have been traditionally removed at redo open surgeries. Here we describe a case of an artery forceps left behind at a previous surgery (open cholecystectomy and appendicectomy) performed 5 years earlier that was removed by laparoscopy.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE "Gossypiboma" is a term used to describe a mass within the body that comprises a cotton matrix surrounded by a foreign-body reaction, which is extremely rare after spinal surgery. The purpose of this study was to describe the clinical and MR imaging features of gossypibomas in the paravertebral area of 7 patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS Between October 1999 and December ...