This is due to the fact that when the cancer ulcerates and sloughs, the risk of sepsis is therefore increased; this also makes convalescence slower.
Cervical glands and so-called ‘glandular fever’ occur in this group, as do septic gastritis and other conditions caused by the conveyance of sepsis to more distant parts.
The vagina is swarming with various kinds of bacteria, and by careful attention to these principles the risk of sepsis will be materially diminished.
Ulceration may be due to sepsisor to pressure from a badly fitting tube, especially when the latter has been worn for a protracted period (Fig.
The wound in the lens capsule and the breaking up of the lens mean the presence of soft matter in the anterior chamber--a condition which favours sepsis and is liable to produce increased tension from blocking the angle of the chamber.
I do not know whether the pneumonia was due to that cause or to sepsis of the lungs, for we had on several occasions some difficulty in feeding him, and in getting a tube properly down his œsophagus.
After the methods of purification given below, this percentage is considerably reduced, so that, if due precautions are taken, the risk of sepsis is comparatively small.
If the form of sepsis is not determinable, streptococcic or staphylococcic vaccines might be administered.
Another common cause of arteriosclerosis occurring too early is the occurrence of some serious infection in a person, typhoid fever and sepsis being most frequent.
In other cases secondary hæmorrhage was the result of perforation of the vessel by a sharp spicule of bone, but in the large majority sepsis and suppuration were the cause.
Secondary amputations for sepsis or hæmorrhage were attended by fair results, but I can give no statistics.
How far the secondary rise depended on sepsis it was not always easy to determine.
When it is recalled that amputations yielded a mortality from sepsis of at least one in four, the extensive use of alcohol in hospital practice two generations ago will be readily understood.
In many manufacturing establishments, in spite of progress with regard to sepsisand antisepsis and the diffusion of information as to first aid to the injured, it is still the custom to put spittle on wounds.
Oral sepsis should, of course, be treated before operation and combated after operation by frequent brushing of the teeth and rinsing of the mouth with Dakin's solution, one part, to ten parts of peppermint water.
If the foreign body be not removed, the resulting chronic sepsis or pulmonary hemorrhage will prove fatal.
If cleansing is carried out within the first six hours the chance of eliminating sepsis is good; with every succeeding six hours it diminishes, until after twenty-four hours it is seldom possible to do more than mitigate sepsis.
It is enough for us to note that the connection between sepsis and bacteria is intimate and vital.
In a large class of cases, however, the connection between childbed fever and sepsis has been deduced rather from analogy than direct proof.
In New York, during the past twenty-five years, for every death from diphtheritic laryngeal stenosis (membranous croup) there have been three from diphtheritic sepsis or from exhaustion.
The symptoms vary greatly in different cases, but they are especially marked in the acute sepsis mentioned by Massanneuve under the head of gangrène foudroyante.
I know that cases of young children with general sepsis commenced immediately to improve when their one hundred grammes (fl.
The swelling about them is intense, and with the extensive sepsis the patient rarely survives.
Sepsis is the one generally to be expected, and this may assume any form from a local affection, such as a furuncle, to a general septicæmia.
The chief danger from the criminal interruption of pregnancy is sepsis (absorption of poisons) into the system.
De Lee saw two cases of sepsisthat killed both mother and child from such an infection shortly before term.
This condition may be mistaken for a general sepsis which is puerperal.
Post-partum gonorrheal sepsis is differentiated from other septic conditions chiefly by the history of gonorrhea in the husband, by bacteriological examinations, and by the technical differentiation of symptoms.
Dermoid cysts are likely to bring on sepsis if they are broken in enucleation, and the diagnosis and operation must be carefully made.
Toward the end of pregnancy the danger from sexual commerce is the risk of infecting the woman's vagina with bacteria which may bring on sepsisthrough the abrasions incident to parturition.
In the first stage weak pains may prolong the dilatation of the cervix for days and expose the mother to sepsis or exhaustion, and the child to consequent danger.
Maternal sepsis may kill the fetus directly or secondarily, and this is true also of maternal syphilis.
When the interior of the aborting uterus has become septic the old treatment was to empty the uterus at once, but now the treatment is expectant, because the traumatism of the curetting makes the sepsis worse.
The standard of comparison for a leukæmic patient suffering from severe sepsis is not the blood of a healthy person with normal numerical proportions, but that of a patient similarly attacked by a severe sepsis.
Now we know that in sepsis the number of eosinophil cells is enormously diminished, so that Zappert, in five cases of this nature, was unable to recognise any eosinophils in the blood.
When the bones are shattered or when sepsis gets the upper hand and disorganises the joint, amputation is called for.
The sepsis stimulates the bone-forming tissues and new bone is formed in considerable amount, especially on the surface of the shaft in the vicinity of the fracture; in macerated specimens it presents a porous, crumbling texture.
The entrance of sepsis may prove an obstacle to any operative measure that would otherwise be indicated.
If sepsis supervenes, the joint is opened and irrigated by Carrel's method.
Sepsis is due to the entrance and multiplication of microbes, or to the absorption of their products in the body.
Such injuries should be examined daily and any sign of sepsis must be considered as an indication for immediate removal of the stitches, followed by active antiseptic wet dressings.
For many months the grafted surface is likely to scale or crack, and this might prove a starting-point for the occurrence of sepsis which would cause the newly grafted area to slough.
Another serious fact is that, while, owing to the strenuous efforts of those engaged in the direction and practice of midwifery, there has been a most gratifying fall in deaths from post-confinement sepsis from 2.
In the same period there were only 70 deaths from sepsis following full-time child-birth.
The evidence offered to the Committee by medical witnesses indicates conclusively that sepsis, and death from sepsis particularly, is almost entirely due to illegal instrumental interference.
Actually in New Zealand in the five-year period mentioned, abortion sepsis was responsible for one-quarter of the total maternal deaths.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sepsis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
