introduction: antibiotic therapy before or after orthognathic surgery is commonly recommended by surgeons to minimize the risk of wound infection. this article evaluates the value of prophylactic antibiotic therapy in order to diminish the incidence of postoperative wound infection after orthognathic surgery.   materials and methods: fifty candidates for bimaxillary orthognathic surgery were di...

Corresponding author: Dr Rubina Malhotra, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, GGSMC, Faridkot. Email id: [email protected] This article may be cited as : Malhotra R, Walia G. A Study on factors affecting post operative wound infection. Int J Com Health and Med Res 2015;1(1):17-21 Article Recieved 9-11-15 Accepted On: 11-12-2015 NTRODUCTION A wound is the disruption in the ...

introduction :   co 2 (carbon dioxide) laser application in circumcision, for cutting and coagulation, has been reported to have excellent results. also, tissue glue has been reported to have advantages over sutures for approximation of wound edges. most previous studies focused on comparisons between co 2 laser and scalpel, or between tissue glue and sutures. this study prospectively compared ...

The occurrence of post-operative wound infection was studied respectively over an eight month period in the University Hospital, Kuala Lumpur. One hundred and seventy four (3.4%) surgical wounds out of 5129 operations became infected. The clean wound infection rate was 2.9%, rising to 5.4% and 12.2% for clean-contaminated and contaminated surgical wounds respectively. Of the wound infections, 8...

BACKGROUND Antibiotics are used both pre and post-operatively in acute appendicitis for preventing wound infection. It has been observed that the routine use of post-operative antibiotics is not necessary in cases of non-perforated appendicitis as only prophylactic antibiotics are sufficient to prevent wound infection. The aim of this study was to see the frequency of wound infection in non-per...

This study was designed to evaluate the effects of a prophylactic antibiotic regimen on the incidence of wound infection after clean neck dissections. A prospective series of 57 patients undergoing clean neck dissections with the use of perioperative ampicillin-sulbactam for 24 hours was compared with an historical control group of 51 patients undergoing clean neck dissections with no periopera...

1 Associate Professor, Surgery Dept, Mamata Medical College, Khammam, Telangana State, India, 507001 2 Assistant Professor, Surgery Department, Mamata Medical College, Khammam, Telangana State Corresponding Author Sambashiva Rao.G Assistant Professor, Surgery Department, Mamata Medical College, Khammam, Telangana State, Email:[email protected] Mobile No 9440913135 Abstract The principle...

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...