Gas gangrene is a deep wound infection caused by Clostridium bacteria that destroys tissue. Symptoms include high fever, shock, massive tissue destruction, blackening of skin around the wound, severe pain, and blisters forming with gas bubbles. Those at risk are people with diabetes, blood vessel disease, or colon cancer, or those with wounds exposed to contaminated materials or recent trauma. Treatment involves high doses of antibiotics like penicillin, removing dead tissue, or amputating limbs. Prevention includes cleaning wounds, avoiding contamination, and treating circulation issues.

1. GAS GANGRENE

2. Gas GangreneWhat is GAS GANGRENE?? - A deep wound infection,destructive of tissue, often caused by combination of two or more species.

3. SymptomsHigh feverShockMassive tissue destructionBlackening of skinSevere pain around a skin of woundBlisters with gas bubbles form near the infected area, the heartbeat and breathing becomerapid.

4. Causative agentClostribium species

5. Pathogenesis

6. EpidemiologyThe persons at risk those with Diabetes Mellitus, blood vessel disease and colon cancerContact with contaminated cloth and other foreign materialTrauma or recent surgical wound

7. TreatmentHigh doses of antibiotic : PenicillinThe dead tissue is removed or limbs are amputatedNo vaccine

8. PreventionCleaning the woundAvoid the contaminated materialimpaired circulation in patients with poor circulationTreatment with hyperbaric oxygen- to treat the gas gangreneantitoxin