background: to determine the efficacy of different antiseptic solutions (control group (i), antibiotic solution (ii), chlorhexidine 0.4% (iii), and povidone – iodine 10% (iv)) in sterilizing contaminated osteochondral plugs. methods: under sterile conditions, the femoral head and condyles of 20 rabbits were removed and cut into equal osteochondral pieces. a total of 200 osteochondral specimens ...

background hygiene and maintenance of removable prostheses are very important for the oral health. elderly patients are not capable of this affair since they might have diseases in addition to being old; thus, they require new alternative methods. objectives the purpose of this study was to compare the disinfecting effects of three substances, water, normal saline and denture cleaning tablets c...

BACKGROUND The optimal fluid strategy for the early treatment of trauma patients remains highly debated. Our objective was to determine the efficacy of an initial bolus of resuscitative fluids used in military and civilian settings on the physiologic response to uncontrolled hemorrhagic shock in a prospective, randomized, blinded animal study. METHODS Fifty anesthetized swine underwent centra...

Background: Fluid rescucitation with normal saline (NS) could aggravate IL-6 production. Our objective was to compare impact of small volume resuscitation hypertonic lactated saline (HLS) versus NS in pediatric severe sepsis/septic shock in developing country hospital setting. The primary endpoint was the decrease of serum IL-6 level after 6 and 12 hours fluid resuscitation. The secondary endpo...

One hundred and seventy-four consecutive patients with symptoms of derangement of the knee were examined with an arthroscope under local anaesthesia using a continuous pressure-irrigation system. A 0.2 per cent prilocaine-saline solution was used as irrigation fluid. In the first 19 patients the serum level of prilocaine was monitored for six hours after the start of irrigation. Eighteen of the...

This study was contemplated to determine the comparative beneficial effects of hypertonic saline solution and sterile saline solution in induced endotoxic shock in dogs. For this purpose, 12 healthy Mongrel dogs were randomly divided into two equal groups (A and B). All the animals were induced endotoxaemia by slow intravenous administration of Escherichia coli endotoxins 0111:B4. Group A was t...

Editors,—I read with interest the article by Ruttmann, James and Aronson1 concerning haemodilution with hydroxethyl starch and normal saline. However, I disagree with their conclusion that they have shown that haemodilution per se exerted a procoagulant effect in both groups. Instead, I propose that their conclusion should be that they demonstrated that haemodilution with normal saline resulted...

This paper compares the effectiveness of normal saline and heparinised saline as a flushing solution in maintaining patency of arterial catheters. Use of heparin as a flushing solution in maintaining patency of intraarterial catheters has been a recognized practice. Due to its anticoagulation properties, heparin can cause side effects like heparin-induced thrombocytopenia in hypersensitive pati...