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REPORT OF A SURVEY OF SEVENTEEN SURGICAL TEACHING CLINICS

WILLIAM C. BECK, M.D.

Arch Surg. 1936;33(5):876-889.

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Resting with a false sense of security on the generally accepted listerian principle, the casual surgeon has not greatly concerned himself with advances in the preparation of the operative field. A large number of surgeons working in open hospitals accept this preparation as a matter of routine. The same unaltered technic may be in vogue many years without revision, until some accident, some grave infection of the wound or even a fatality will call attention to a fault in the technic. Recently Meleney,¹ from the service of the Presbyterian Hospital in New York, surveyed the cases of infection of the wound over a period of ten years and found that 12.5 per cent of the clean wounds showed some type of inflammatory reaction. In a recent symposium from the New York hospitals it was found that in about 3 per cent of all of the laparotomies there was some . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CHICAGO

From the Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Medical School.

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