But a puncture made in a similar manner and with the same instrument without due regard to asepsis is likely to cause an infectious synovitis and arthritis usually follows.
One, by the employment of means to keep the wound patent and injection of suitable antiseptics, or agents that are more or less caustic in conjunction with strict observance of asepsis and wound protection.
Daily irrigation done in a manner that practical asepsis is carried out, is necessary for about a week.
But if subjects are kept quiet after the parts have been properly bandaged, no difficulty is encountered in maintaining asepsis in an uninfected wound.
So long as any attachment to the intact scalp remains, the parts should be replaced, and, if asepsis is maintained, a satisfactory result may be hoped for.
This leads us to the subject of prevention as the most important of all which claim our attention.
The success of surgical operations depends on the judgment, skill, and dexterity, as well as upon the knowledge of the operator.
The eyeball may be torn out of its socket by the horns of another animal, or it may be crowded out with the blunt end of a club, cane, or probe in the hands of a brutal attendant.
If in such case the fore limbs have been left in the womb, they may now be brought up into the passage, and when dragged upon the collapsed head will follow.
The tumor may be so situated that by shifting its position a little it may partially obstruct the posterior nares (nostrils), when, of course, it will render nasal breathing very noisy and labored.
Asepsis is an ideal condition which, although not always possible in animal surgery, is highly important in connection with the mechanical details of all surgical operations in proportion to the nature and seriousness of the same.
The endoscopic team of three maintain surgicalasepsis in the matter of hands and gowns, etc.
Carelessness in asepsis has been known to cause cervical cellulitis.
Care in carrying out asepsis in tapping, which should be performed with an aspirator, need hardly be more than mentioned.
Under the conditions which necessarily accompanied this operation the ensurance of asepsis was impossible, and the additional wound no doubt proved the source of infection.
The head cases on the other hand bore movement fairly well, provided only that asepsis was ensured.
In several cases quoted below, incision and evacuation were followed by excellent results; in any such operation too much care to ensure asepsis is impossible.
The usual precautions as to maintaining oral asepsiswere especially necessary.
Much stress has been laid upon the subject of asepsis and antisepsis.
The influence of asepsis in the management of wounds has completely revolutionized surgical practice, and the old fatal types of pyemia and septicema have now practically vanished.
Asepsis aims at thorough sterilization of the parts and of all the objects brought into contact with the wounds, and the exclusion of germs by the use of occlusive bandages and dressings.
Asepsis in such cases is the almost invariable rule, and the treatment after the simple dressing is that of a simple fracture.
Infection would depend most probably upon the asepsis of the first dressing.
Nearly the same story as with regard to anæsthetics has to be repeated for what are deemed so surely modern developments,--asepsis and antisepsis.
Until comparatively recent years we have been quite confident in our assurance that antisepsis and asepsis were entirely modern developments of surgery.
The whole secret of the success of this operation is in afterwards maintaining a strict asepsis of the wound.
It consists solely in maintaining a rigid asepsis of the parts until healing is well advanced or complete.
Immediately a wound is inflicted in this position, attempts should be made to insure thorough asepsis of the part.
That there is always great difficulty in maintaining strict asepsis of the foot, more especially if it is a hind one.
Also, in order to avoid the sometimes abortive attempts of the antiseptic pad, to maintain a condition of asepsis around the wound, we advise the continual soaking of the whole foot in a cold antiseptic bath.
Sepsis may occur from absorption through a laceration ifasepsis has not been maintained: it may lead to an attack of pelvic cellulitis or even septicæmia.
Unless strict asepsis be maintained, these lacerations of course form a channel for infection of the pelvic cellular tissue.
Provided asepsis is maintained, the middle-ear inflammation usually subsides rapidly with healing of the membrane.
If asepsis has been obtained, the posterior wound has usually completely healed, so that the stitches can be removed at the first dressing.
Strict asepsis must be observed; the labia must be shorn of long hairs; this is followed by cleansing of the vagina and a vaginal douche, and finally the vulva is washed with antiseptic lotion.
Provided asepsis has been maintained, this small operation seldom gives rise to any inflammatory reaction.
In cases of non-suppuration there is rarely any pain, and ifasepsis has been maintained, there is seldom much discharge beyond slight sanious oozing.
Antisepsis and Asepsis (the latter almost infinitely the greatest invention in the history of therapeutics) will have pushed their way from surgery into medicine.
The substitution of asepsisfor antisepsis--that is, of cleanliness for disinfection--has hardly yet been perceived to be in a certain sense the greatest advance in therapeutics since Hippocrates.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "asepsis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cleanliness; daintiness; purity; sterility
