The control of hospital infection of wounds

Cross-infection of Wounds with Antibiotic-resistant Organisms

“…The value of no-touch technique was demonstrated in the dressing of neurosurgical wounds (McKissock et al, 1941), and has been further validated in studies on added infection rates of a wider range of wounds in hospital (Williams et al, 1945) and in factory surgeries (Clayton<Cooper and Williams, 1945). Involving no antibiotic barrier, such prophylaxis is equally effective against sensitive and resistant contaminants.…”

Incidence and Source of Casualty Wound Infections

“…There have been many investigations of hospital wound infections (Blowers, Mason, Wallace and Walton 1955;Hare and Ridley 1958;Kinmonth, Hare, Tracy, Thomas, Marsh and Jantet 1958;Lowbury and Lilly 1960;Williams, Blowers, Garrod and Shooter 1960;Buchanan, Curwen, Shooter and White 1961;Lack, Towers and Stevenson 1962;Shepherd and Kinmonth 1962); and also of infections in the factory (Williams, Miles, Clayton-Cooper and Moss 1949;Atkins and Marks 1952), and in the home (Kay 1962).…”

Investigations of Staphylococcal Infection Acquired in Great Britain's Hospitals

“…The streptococcus offered a simpler problem than the staplhylococcus has proved to be, even witlhout considering antibiotics, because its rarity in freslh wounds and relative rarity in the respiratory tract made it immediately clear that cross-infection, niot self-infection, must be involved. The work during tlle war was important in showing that streptococcal cross-infection of surgical wouniids could be controlled by closing clhannels of contact infectioni, by n-o-touichl dressing techlniques, an-id by the mainiteniance of an aseptic routine in the wards as rigorous in its way as those already regarded as stanldard in the operatinig tlheater (4). laxis and the use of an air-conditioned room for performing the dressings.…”