The paper you refer to was:-
Riyat MS and Quinton DN. Tap water as a wound cleansing agent in accident
and emergency. JAEM 1997;14:165-166
The authors simply examined bacterial counts in water obtained from a
variety of water sources. They looked at Hospital and Domestic supplies.
They grew no organisms of any particular interest and therefore concluded
that it was safe.
Sadly the results are clearly not generalisable, samples were only drawn
twice over an 8 month period which hardly constitutes monitring. Nor are
the results easily applicable to other settings. In addition the clinical
outcome measure for wound cleansing would be a study comparing wound
infection rates using different methods of irrigation, not this study.
Simon Carley
Anaesthetics / Intensive Care
Stepping Hill Hospital
Stockport
England
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> From: Andrew G Hobart <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Tap Water
> Date: 03 September 1998 13:56
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> Paper from Leicester A&E Department in I think the journal of A&E
> Medicine showed that tap water was quite clean enough for wound
> cleaning.
> I am sure that if you do a literature search this paper will show up.
>
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> Andrew
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