PROGRESSIVE POST-OPERATIVE CUTANEOUS GANGRENE

Post-operative Gangrene of Eyelid.

PROGRESSIVE post-operative gangrene is a rare but clinically typical phenomenon of secondary infection of a surgical wound. It is usually abdominal or thoracic (Sutton, 1956), and has occurred most often soon after the drainage of an appendix abscess or empyema (Illingworth and Dick, 1945). Post-operative gangrene has rarely been reported to affect the eyelids and the description of the followi...

Pre-Operative and Post-Operative Treatment

A new edition is most welcome. When the book appeared in 1937 it was well in advance of anything then in print. There is again a great deal of recent work assimilated into the body of the various chapters. Among the names of contributors are many new ones,some of which have been prominent in the journals during the last 8 years. We miss the name of Homans and his beautiful article on thrombosis...

Post Operative Arrhythmias

Heart rhythm disturbances are being increasingly recognized during the postoperative period. While many are transient and short lived without altering the recovery phase after cardiac or non-cardiac surgery, they do have the potential to pose a threat to patient’s health, prolong hospital stay, and in a minority of patients may even cause death. Continuous monitoring is becoming the standard of...

Post-operative fluid complications.

Dipyrimadole & Post-Operative Hypercoagulability

It has been suggested that dipyrimadole might be effective in reducing the incidence of thrombosis by interfering with both platelet clumping and the early stages of blood clotting. Emmons et al (1965 a & b) found that dipyrimadole inhibited thrombus formation in injured rabbit vessels in vivo, and reduced platelet stickiness in vitro, and they suggested that dipyrimadole might be a useful agen...