A new instrument for closed irrigation-suction treatment.
Orthopedic surgeons are often faced with the surgical complication of fulminating deep wound infection and bone and joint infection after complicated fractures. Two hundred and seventy patients were treated for bone and joint infection by closed irrigation-suction from 1970 to 1982. Obstruction of the drainage tube, solution leakage, and post-operative bleeding were the knotty problems. Our new instrument for irrigation-suction treatment resolved these problems. The instruments consists of a suction pump, a channel changer, and a double tube system.
D000328:Adult; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010019:Osteomyelitis / Q000628:therapy*; D013396:Suction / Q000295:instrumentation*; D007507:Therapeutic Irrigation / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014946:Wound Infection / Q000628:therapy*