Perineal care

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Johnson and Johnson

Johnson & Johnson is a leading pharmaceutical and healthcare company, with annual sales in 2009 of $22,520 million, ranking it the 8th largest pharmaceutical company in the world (based on sales...

Dentistry

Dentistry is the study, management and treatment of diseases and conditions affecting the mouth, jaw, teeth and their supporting tissues (Oxford Medical Dictionary) The work of a dentist ranges fr...

MRSA

MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) is a family of bacteria with resistance to one or more major antibiotics. There are currently 17 different strains of MRSA. Two particular strains,...

In perineal tear, overlapping or end-to-end repair yields similar anal continence

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Long after a perineal tear, anal continence is similar whether repair used an overlapping or end-to-end approach -- but certain short-term results do differ, Canadian r...

Hospitals, Universities Make the Link Between Hand Hygiene Compliance and Decreased Infections

A new brief from DebMed®, the creator of an electronic hand hygiene compliance monitoring system based on the World Health Organization (WHO)'s "Five Moments for Hand Hygiene," provides a deeper look...

‘Hygiene hypothesis’ updated to ‘Old Friends’ hypothesis

A new scientific report out today from the International Scientific Forum on Home Hygiene (IFH) dismantles the myth that the epidemic rise in allergies in recent years has happened because we’re liv...

Keeping hand hygiene high on the patient safety agenda

The World Health Organization’s annual global hand hygiene day is on 5 May (www.who.int/gpsc/5may/en). The day offers participating hospitals tools to improve hand hygiene and supports WHO’s first...

GOJO Announces Launch of SMARTLINK Hand Hygiene Solutions

GOJO Industries, a leader in hand hygiene and skin health and inventors of PURELL® Hand Sanitizer, is assisting Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children (TSRHC) in measuring and improving hand hygie...

Patient Empowerment as a Hand Hygiene Strategy

Infection Control Today asked members of industry to describe the importance of patient involvement in hand hygiene and suggest some best practices for implementation into an existing hospital-based h...

Hand Hygiene Reduces Multidrug Resistance

Many studies have gauged compliance with hand hygiene policies, but one now shows that improvements in hand hygiene can reduce the incidence of multidrug-resistant organisms in a major hospital. Med...

Experts Offer Tips for Making Hand Hygiene Lessons "Stick"

It’s the start of a new year, and with that comes the classic tradition: the New Year’s Resolution. Why not make one of this year’s resolutions to finally knock hand hygiene compliance rates out...

Enlarging perineal endometrioma developing after colpoperineorrhaphy.

Although endometriosis is not infrequent, the occurrence of perineal endometriomata is relatively rare and is generally attributed to seeding of endometrial cells to the perineal body during obstetric...

A transperineal approach to perineal hernia repair using suture anchors and acellular porcine dermal mesh.

Perineal hernia following major pelvic surgery is a rare but recognised complication. Various surgical approaches to the repair of a symptomatic perineal hernia have been described. We describe the fi...

Laparoscopic extralevator abdominal perineal excision of the rectum: the best of both worlds.

We report a combined laparoscopic and open technique for extralevator abdominal perineal excision of the rectum. The key steps are a laparoscopic rectal dissection limited distally by the coccyx. The...

Postburn Perineal Obliteration: Elimination of Perineal, Inguinal, and Perianal Contractures With the Groin Flap.

Deep burns of the perineum result in the perineal obliteration, hip adduction contracture, and limitation of the hip range motion. The body hygiene becomes difficult to maintain. Perineal obliteration...

Reducing perineal trauma through perineal massage with vaseline in second stage of labor.

PURPOSE: Maintaining an intact perineum is a highly regarded aim in delivery procedures today. Since perineal massage is a common practice during delivery, the present study aims to investigate the ef...