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Postoperative wound infections in clean surgery were studied to compare the effect of preoperative whole body disinfection with chlorhexidine soap with that of local washing and no washing at all, respectively. The study includes 1530 operations for biliary tract disease, inguinal hernia and breast cancer. The overall…

Forty-five patients awaiting prostatectomy participated in a double-blind study of phenoxybenzamine 10 mg/day for 5 weeks. Objective measurements of peak urine flow, voided volume, residual urine and frequency of micturition and nocturia showed no significant difference between phenoxybenzamine and placebo. Patients ta…

Carbonated bupivacaine and bupivacaine hydrochloride were used for epidural anaesthesia in patients undergoing surgery of the lower extremities. Thirty patients received 20 ml 0.5% bupivacaine hydrochloride and 32 patients 20 ml 0.42% carbonated bupivacaine. Carbonated bupivacaine had a more rapid onset of action and s…

The results of applied relaxation training in patients with generalised anxiety and panic attacks are reported. ART was taught during one session, by means of participant demonstration, written instructions, taped instructions, or a combination of all three, with instructions to practice at home. All four methods prove…

In a prospective sequential double blind trial 288 patients with acute abdominal pain were given sublingual buprenorphine 200 mcg, sublingual buprenorphine 400 mcg, or placebo. Pain relief was proportional to the number of tablets administered; buprenorphine had no difference in effect compared to placebo. Physical sig…

A double-blind cross-over trial of depot flupenthixol in recurrent manic depressive psychosis was carried out. All patients continued on lithium. Eleven patients completed the two-year trial. Flupenthixol appeared to have no prophylactic effect.

Clovoxamine, an inhibitor of neuronal uptake of both serotin and noradrenaline, was compared with doxepin in depressed patients over four weeks. Antidepressant efficacy was comparable for both drugs, but clovoxamine might have a special degree of efficacy for patients with more severe depressive illnesses.

Open clinical trials have suggested that desipramine may be an effective agent for treatment of phencyclidine (PCP) or amphetamine dependence. Four pairs (eight subjects) with PCP and two pairs (four subjects) with amphetamine dependence were studied. One subject in each pair was given desipramine or placebo under doub…

In a placebo-controlled single-crossover study, seven patients with treatment-resistant chronic paranoid schizophrenia who received methadone plus neuroleptic showed significant improvement. Methadone may be a useful adjunctive treatment in a subpopulation of patients with chronic paranoid schizophrenia.

A small, controlled trial of joint treatment of childhood asthma by a doctor, a physiotherapist, a psychologist, and a social worker, working together in the family setting, demonstrated an improvement in ventilatory capacity. The limited scope of this trial does not permit more general conclusions as to the effect of…

A method is presented for approximating the influence of individual cases upon regression coefficient estimates obtained from the Cox proportional hazards model. Observations can thus be identified which may greatly influence statistical inferences regarding the effects of prognostic factors upon survival time. An exam…

Using 750 outpatients as our material, the effects of dimethicon , simethicon - pankreatin and lysin-vasopressin, of the position of the patient and of the filling of the stomach with soup on the success of pancreatic ultrasonography were studied. Dimethicon had no, simethicon - pankreatin an almost significant and lys…

A double-blind crossover study was conducted in 10 stable asthmatics comparing 5 mg fenoterol with 5 mg salbutamol, both given via a Hudson nebulizer. Although both drugs caused significant bronchodilatation at the doses used, fenoterol had a significantly greater peak effect than salbutamol and its duration of action…

A double-blind procedure is presented for assessing the response to stimulant medication among children with attention deficit disorder. Of 94 children treated with methylphenidate and placebo, 70 demonstrated a positive response to active medication. It is suggested that a double-blind investigation is an efficient me…

No effect of penicillamine upon intelligence was found in boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy when compared to placebo administered in a double-blind fashion. All children, however, showed a significant progressive decline in intelligence quotient. An analysis of mental age showed no change over a 24-month period, su…