Surgical Swabs
Sir, —I learn from your columns that surgical swabs are now to be impregnated with barium sulphate to enable quicker detection should one find its. way into some poor unfortunate’s abdomen. Will not this tend to encourage, subconsciously or consciously, a relaxation in the strict supervision and observation of rules which have hitherto pertained to theatre swabs? Because of the claims made for antibiotics they Jiave been used indiscriminately and rules concerning asepsis, hygiene, and hospital cleanliness have' from all accounts been allowed to fall into disregard. As a result hospitals are: full of bugs which have built up such a resistance that they are practically uncontrollable. There are no short cuts to good health, and if our medical authorities do not soon pay more attention to natural prevention and the laws of nature we shall be confronted with worse problems.—Yours, etc., S.R.N.S.C.M. February 28, 1959.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28833, 2 March 1959, Page 3
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