Recent reports of whirlpool and hot tub associated septicemia (12), skin infections (5), urinary tract. infections (17), pneumonia (15) legionellosis and pontiac fever (2,8) raise serious public health concerns about the. risks associated with whirlpool bathtubs. To assess the risks, whirlpool bath water samples were aseptically collected from private homes and hotels from across the United States. This report deals with whirlpool bathtubs that are filled and drained after each use, as distinguished from recreational spas and hot tubs. A typical whirlpool bathtub incorporates a system of inaccessible air and water piping (10). When a bather
Open (simple) prostatectomy has 3 different approaches: retropubic, suprapubic, and perineal. Simple retropubic prostatectomy is the enucleation of a hyperplastic prostatic adenoma through a direct incision of the anterior prostatic capsule.n the retropubic (Millin) prostatectomy, the patient is placed on the operating room table in the supine position in mild Trendelenburg. In the suprapubic approach, place the patient in a supine position on the operative table, with the umbilicus over the break of the table.
Surgery is a common choice to try to cure prostate cancer if it is not thought to have spread outside the prostate gland. The main type of surgery for prostate cancer is a radical prostatectomy. In this operation, the surgeon removes the entire prostate gland plus some of the tissue around it, including the seminal vesicles. A radical prostatectomy can be done in different ways.