Treatment of the operating field with 5% alcoholic solution of picric acid

Abstract

The treatment of the operating field with a 5% alcoholic solution of picric acid for only a little more than 1% of years came into use at the Faculty Surgical Clinic, displacing the treatment with iodine tincture that was used until then and completely gaining the sympathy of the staff. A little less than 1000 inpatient and large outpatient surgeries were performed during this period. After subtracting from this number of cases of purely purulent, as well as obviously contaminated (for example, amputations with extensive weakening of fabrics - tram and railway injuries), we got the figure 741, i.e., the total number of such operations that could be considered, if not absolutely, then at least relatively clean.

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