Preoperative decolonization with octenidine nasal ointment did not reduce overall surgical site infection rates in cardiac surgery patients, but significantly reduced harvest site and organ/space ...

The dressing can therefore perform up to five separate octenidine deployments, before its entire payload of medication is used up. The scientists are now trying to reduce the temperature increase ...

(Nanowerk News) It is not possible to tell from the outside whether a wound will heal without problems under the dressing or whether bacteria will penetrate the injured tissue and ignite an ...