Abstract: We summarize indications, contraindications, and therapeutic guidelines for the use of adjunctive hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) in problem wounds and selected orthopaedic infections. Three typical cases that all were successfully treated with HBO are...
Abstract: Twenty-eight consecutive patients with chronic refractory osteomyelitis uncomplicated by persistent segmental bone defect, fracture nonunion, septic arthritis, total joint arthroplasty, or major systemic disease (immune deficiency, malignancy, diabetes...
Abstract: Twenty-eight consecutive patients with chronic refractory osteomyelitis uncomplicated by persistent fracture nonunion, septic arthritis, total joint arthroplasty, or major systemic disease (immune deficiency, malignancy, malnutrition, renal or hepatic...
Abstract: Between 1979 and 1982, thirty-eight patients with chronic non-hematogenous osteomyelitis were treated by local débridements of the wound, prolonged parenteral administration of antibiotics, and an average of forty-eight once-a-day treatments with hyperbaric...
Abstract: Spinal anaesthesia using 1.2 ml of hyperbaric cinchocaine was found to abolish the autonomic hyper-reflexic cardiovascular responses to bladder distension and produced little alteration in cardiovascular measurements. Barker, Alderson, Lydon, Franks, , , , ,...
Abstract: There is a correlation between tissue oxygen tension, incidence of infection and disturbance of wound healing. Scientific investigations in recent years have documented that infection and tissue repair are processes consuming oxygen. Animal experiments have...
Abstract: Spinal Cord Injury patients are liable to develop osteomyelitis mostly by extension from pressure ulcers. In 2055 records reviewed in the Long Beach Spinal Cord Injury Service of the Veterans Administration Medical Center, the incidence was found to be 4.3...
Abstract: A Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HOT) unit was set up some months ago in the Anaesthesia Service of the Galeazzi Orthopaedic Institute in Milan. HOT can be used in a number cases which are not relevant to the present report. In the field of Orthopaedics and...
Abstract: 42 cases of spinal epidural abscesses were operated on in the years 1957-1980, among approximately 8,000 spinal operations. Staphylococcus aureus was the microorganism most commonly isolated from infected material and the primary source of infection was in...
