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Antiseptics

Antiseptics (Greek anti-– against; opposite property, action, situation + Greek septikos – putrefactive, causing rotting; synonym: antiputrefactive method, устар.) – a complex of treatment-and-prophylactic actions which are directed to destruction of microbes in wounds, other pathological educations or an organism in general.

Allocate the following types of antiseptics:

  • Biological – is carried out by means of bacteriostatic or microbicides of a biological origin (phytoncides, bacteriophages, antibiotics, etc.);
  • Deep – is based on infiltration of fabrics with the maintenance of microflora solution antimicrobic (as a rule, biological) means which is entered by means of an injection;
  • Local – is based on introduction of antimicrobic means to the abscess cavity or wounds infected a perigastrium, etc.;
  • Mechanical – is based on removal from a wound of liquids, fabrics, foreign bodys with the contagiums which are on and/or in them; drainage, a section or excision of a wound, etc. belongs to such methods;
  • The general (synonym: "the therapy sterilizing big") – is based on peroral, intravascular or intramuscular introduction to fabrics and blood of substances with low organotropic and high bakteriotropny action (streptocides, antibiotics);
  • Superficial – is based on drawing on a wound surface, mucous membranes, skin of antimicrobic means in the form of solutions, ointments, powders, aerosols;
  • Physical – is based on use of physical factors: ultrasound, hypertonic salt solutions, hygroscopic bandages, ultra-violet radiation, dry heat, etc.;
  • Chemical – is carried out by means of chemicals with bacteriostatic or bactericidal action.
 
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