For some patients undergoing surgery, the journey is just beginning after they leave the hospital. Surgical site infections are among the most common post-op complications, affecting 2% to 4% of ...

For specialized wound care, the Maui Health Wound Clinic provides expert treatment and advanced therapies, including ...

(Oct. 26, 2011) - Thomas Jefferson University Hospital surgeons have found that a carefully-selected surgical care check list of 12 measures reduced Whipple procedure wound infections by nearly 50 ...

Giving antibiotics to women within 24 hours of an obstetric tear during childbirth is associated with a reduced risk of ...

Wound infection, which is potentially avoidable, is a common, expensive complication of abdominal surgery; in this report, the overall infection rate was 20% (10/50 patients). This trial found that a ...

If you have any injury with open skin, you need to take care of it to avoid infection. Keeping a wound clean, washing your hands before touching it, and following any instructions from your doctor ...

A nanocellulose wound dressing that can reveal early signs of infection without interfering with the healing process has been developed. A nanocellulose wound dressing that can reveal early signs of ...

Current practice for clinicians trying to determine whether a patient’s wound is infected entails plating the bacteria and letting it incubate overnight, a process than can take 24 hours to complete.

The Department of Defense Blast Injury Research Program Coordinating Office hosted the 2016 International State-of-the-Science Meeting "Minimizing the Impact of Wound Infections Following ...

These facts are in keeping with the general impression gained from the current medical literature and recent meetings — namely, that the number of patients with malignant forms of staphylococcal ...

THE Friedländer bacillus (Klebsiella pneumoniae), under the right conditions, is highly virulent for man. Hence, although infections with this organism are not frequent, they deserve consideration out ...