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| Year : 1990 | Volume
: 36
| Issue : 1 | Page : 13-5 |
Role of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in the rapid control of gas gangrene infection and its toxaemia.
DR Trivedi, VV Raut
Department of General Surgery, B.Y.L. Nair Hospital, Bombay Central, Maharashtra.
Correspondence Address:
D R Trivedi
Department of General Surgery, B.Y.L. Nair Hospital, Bombay Central, Maharashtra.
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PMID: 0002097348 
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.
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