Removing Outer Gloves as a Method to Reduce Spinal Surgery Infection.

Study Design: A retrospective cohort study was performed to analyze the effect of a specifically timed glove change on infection rates in lumbar spinal fusion.

Objectives: Postoperative infection is a frequent and taxing complication following posterior lumbar spine fusion with instrumentation. This procedure is associated with infection rates up to 9%.

A simple method to reduce infection of ventriculoperitoneal shunts.

Object: Postoperative shunt infection is the most common and feared complication of ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt placement for treatment of hydrocephalus. The rate of shunt infection is highest in the 1st postoperative month. The most common organisms responsible for shunt infection include coagulase-negative Staphylococcus and Staphylococcus aureus.

Multi-antibiotic resistant brain abscess sensitive only to chloramphenicol: a case report.

Introduction: A brain abscess is a focal, intracerebral infection that begins as a localized area of cerebritis and develops into a collection of pus surrounded by a well-vascularized capsule.

Case Presentation: An 18 year old male was diagnosed to have culture-negative bilateral subdural empyema, which was drained and the patient was discharged, only to return 3 months later with a left temporo-parietal abscess that was drained and continued to show no growth on cultures and was non-responsive to multiple antibiotics. As a final effort, chloramphenicol therapy was begun and the patient showed immediate improvement and made a relatively uneventful recovery.