The use of topical agent is one of the main strategies in management of burn injury. At Dr. Hasan Sadikin Hospital, moist exposed burn ointment (MEBO) is the first line topical agent for treating burn injury, not all places in Indonesia able to use it. Piper betle is one of the traditional agent to treat wound including that caused burn injury. Our experimental study was to compare the second g…
Different from developed countries, molecular characteristic of colorectal adenocarcinoma (CRC) among Indonesians in the age group of ≤40 years old is mostly similar compared to the CRC of the age group of >40 years old, and both are sporadic cancers. To know the association of molecular characteristic with the risk factors of CRC, a cross sectional study was conducted to analyze the associat…
Incarcerated hernia is an acute abdominal case caused by bowel obstruction due to incarceration of hernia ring. An experimental study on animals proved that there was mucosal barrier damage after 4 hours of total bowel obstruction and total damage after 12 hours causing bacterial translocation. In order to determine contamination due to bacterial translocation in the hernia sac, culture was tak…
A simple method to improve oxygen pressure to tissue perfusion adequately is by increasing the concentration of inspired oxygen.We therefore tested the hypothesis that the supplemental administration of oxygen during the post-operative period decreases the incidence of wound infection.We randomly assigned 102 patients at Dr. Hasan Sadikin Hospital who underwent exploratory laparotomy due to loc…