title: Role of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in the rapid control of gas gangrene infection and its toxaemia.
abstract: Fifteen cases of proved gas gangrene infection were studied to assess the rapidity of control of infection and associated toxaemia, by hyperbaric oxygen therapy at 2 1/2 atmospheres pressure. Within 3-5 sittings, all the cases (100%) were found to become devoid of clostridial organisms as judged by smear and culture methods.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Surgery, B.Y.L. Nair Hospital, Bombay Central, Maharashtra.
authors.forename: D R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Trivedi
authors.forename: V V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Raut
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005738:Gas Gangrene / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D006931:Hyperbaric Oxygenation; D008297:Male