[16] Since its synthesis in 1950, chlorhexidine has been used for many years in hospital and other clinical settings for hand and wound cleansing and skin and mucosal antisepsis before surgery or ...

Conservative treatment of joints was an impossibility until antisepsis and asepsis made it not only a possibility, but a duty. The popular opinion that the surgeons did a large amount of ...

Among these was the need for adequate anesthesia, antisepsis, and acceptable suture materials. With these key requisites in place, advances in surgical therapy were unparalleled in the entire ...

A new study published today in the American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC) demonstrates the use of a simple pre-surgical ...

The platform technology can be delivered via solutions, polymers and coatings and can be extended into medical devices, antisepsis, cosmetics, water safety, food safety and preservation, aquaculture ...

The approach involved a pre-surgical intranasal application of povidone-iodine and skin antisepsis using chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG). The study involved 688 adult patients who had hip or knee ...

the advances of the Dark Ages and the Renaissance and on to the early pioneers of anaesthesia and antisepsis such as Morton, Lister and Pasteur. Heavily illustrated in colour, The Cambridge ...

FRIDAY, April 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Use of presurgery intranasal povidone-iodine (PVP-I) is effective for reducing the rate of surgical site infection (SSI) after joint arthroplasty and ...

Nicole Narea covers politics and society for Vox. She first joined Vox in 2019, and her work has also appeared in Politico, Washington Monthly, and the New Republic. Arizona lawmakers voted Wednesday ...

The Hungarian capital, Budapest, was on Friday announced to be Taipei Film Festival’s “city in focus” this year, with 20 films to be screened as a “condensed history” of Hungary’s cinematic scene, the ...

Chlorhexidine-based antisepsis interventions have the potential for significant reduction of the burden of neonatal morbidity and mortality in developing countries, yet further information is ...