Closed irrigation with antibiotiotics as the treatment of infected bone

Abstract

Continuous closed irrigation has been applied to five cases of osteomyelitis took place after fracture. They are two cases of shaft of tibia, and each of femoral neck, femur and calcaneal bone. The wound was closed and healed completely and the inflammation was subsided duely in all cases.
One patient had had two times of irrigation as the tubes were stopped by the tissue debris.
After irrigation bone chip grafting was carried out, and in two cases, electrical currency was applied to stimurate bone growth.