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Thu Mar 24 04:05:47 GMT 2005

In a message dated 3/23/2005 7:02:35 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
cursic at gmail.com writes:

For the  surgeons on the list (others too, if you feel like it): 
assume you're been  assigned to a small field hospital in some remote
area that has been  decimated by some natural or man-made disaster
(war, earthquake, tsunami,  whatever).  All supplies must be flown in
(the local infrastructure is  nil).  Which three antibiotics would you
request to have included in  your surgical cache?  Assume you'll be
doing mostly amputations,  debridements, laparotomies and maybe a few
craniotomies and  thoracotomies.

Sulfmylon (more specifically Naphenine HYDROCLORIDE, not acetate)

Flagyl

Penecillin or second generation cephalosporin

NON-antibiotic instruments, like knives, and suture are more  important.    
ANTIBIOTICS DO NOT PREVENT WOUND  INFECTION.   If I were to take antibiotics, I 
would look to use them  for SEPSIS, soft tissue infection, urinary tract 
infection, pneumonia, and  meningitis.     

k

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