Credé's Method
Credé's method and Credé's procedure most commonly refers to one of two medical procedures: * Credé's prophylaxis for preventing blindness in newborns. * Credé's maneuver for expelling the placenta or voiding the bladder. {{disambiguation ...
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Credé's Prophylaxis
Credé prophylaxis is the practice of washing a newborn's eyes with a 1% silver nitrate solution to protect against neonatal conjunctivitis caused by ''Neisseria gonorrhoeae'', thereby preventing blindness. The Credé procedure was developed by the German physician Carl Siegmund Franz Credé who implemented it in his hospital in Leipzig in 1880. Between 1881 and 1883, Credé published three papers in '' Archiv für Gynäkologie'', each titled "Die Verhütung der Augenentzündung der Neugeborenen" (Prevention of inflammatory eye disease in the newborn), describing his method and its results. The original procedure called for a 2% silver nitrate solution administered immediately after birth, as Credé erroneously believed that a 1% solution was ineffective due to a previous study by Hecker; however, this was eventually corrected and reduced back down to a 1% solution to reduce chemical irritation to the newborn's eyes. As neonatal conjunctivitis used to occur in around 10% ...
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