Could Carbon Dioxide Replace Antibiotics in Surgery?

Wednesday, February 4, 2009 - 09:35 in Health & Medicine

The journal Medical Hypotheses , an Elsevier publication, has announced the winner of the 2008 David Horrobin Prize for medical theory. Written by Mikael Persson and Jan van der Linden from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, the article “Intraoperative CO2 insufflation can decrease the risk of surgical site infection” was judged to best embody the spirit of the journal.

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