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2. JOSEPH LISTER: FATHER OF MODERN SURGERY.
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Pitt, Dennis and Aubin, Jean-Michel
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INFLAMMATION ,WOUND care ,ANTISEPTICS - Abstract
The article focuses on Joseph Lister who was a British surgeon. It informs that Joseph Lister was born in Essex in England and went to University College of University of London. He attained Fellowship in the Royal College of Surgeons and at the age of 33 was appointed as Regius Professor of Surgery at the University of Glasgow. The main research interest of Joseph Lister was inflammation and developed antiseptic method for treating wounds.
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- 2012
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3. Disinfection of the Access Orifice in NOTES: Evaluation of the Evidence Base.
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Sodergren, Mikael H., Pucher, Philip, Clark, James, James, David R. C., Sockett, Jenny, Matar, Nagy, Teare, Julian, Guang-Zhong Yang, and Darzi, Ara
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INFECTION prevention ,ENDOSCOPIC surgery ,ANTISEPTICS ,PREOPERATIVE care - Abstract
Introduction. Appropriate prevention of infection is a key area of research in natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery (NOTES), as identified by the Natural Orifice Surgery Consortium for Assessment and Research (NOSCAR). Methods. A review of the literature was conducted evaluating the evidence base for access orifice preparation/treatment in NOTES procedures in the context of infectious complications. Recommendations based on the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine guidelines were made. Results. The most robust evidence includes several experimental randomised controlled trials assessing infectious complications in the transgastric approach to NOTES. Transvaginal procedures are long established for accessing the peritoneal cavity following disinfection with antiseptic. Only experimental case series for transcolonic and transvesical approaches are described. Conclusion. Grade C recommendation requiring no preoperative preparation can be made for the transgastric approach. Antiseptic irrigation is recommended for transvaginal (grade C) NOTES access, as is current practice. Further human trials need to be conducted to corroborate the current evidence base for transgastric closure. It is important that future trials are conducted in a methodologically robust fashion, with emphasis on clinical outcomes and standardisation of enterotomy closure and postoperative therapy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
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4. From Poison Peddlers to Civic Worthies: The Reputation of the Apothecaries in Georgian England.
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Corfield, Penelope J.
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PHARMACISTS ,CHEMISTS ,MEDICAL personnel ,PHYSICIANS ,ANTISEPTICS - Abstract
Trust is not automatically granted to providers of professional services. The doctors of Georgian England were, by later standards, deficient in medical knowhow, particularly before the mid-nineteenth-century scientific understanding of antiseptics, and much satirised. Nonetheless, the emergence of a coherent medical profession indicates that the picture was far more intricate and positive than the satirists implied. Patients sought care as well as cure; and medical practitioners had no problems in finding custom. This essay reassesses the apothecaries' role in the slow transition whereby reputable practitioners differentiated themselves from 'quacks'. The change was propelled by three linked processes: firstly, the intersection of expanding medical supply with insistent consumer demand, noting that demand plays a key role alongside supply; secondly, the intersection of local power-broking within Britain's growing towns with an ethos of community service, whereby apothecaries joined the ranks of 'civic worthies' and trusted care-givers; and, lastly, the intersection of shared medical knowledge among practitioners at all levels with the creation of a distinctive professional identity. As public trust grew, so Parliament was emboldened in 1815 to license the Apothecaries Society as the regulatory body for the medical rank-and-file, so launching the distinctive Anglo-American system of arm's-length state regulation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
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