Q: How can I tell if hip or knee post-surgical site redness is infectious? A: Post-acute care for hip and knee replacements has changed significantly over the decades. Today, younger patients with ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The surgical site infection rate was 10.9% with the wound protector vs. 20.5% with conventional gauze. There was ...

April 26, 2011 — Surgical site infection (SSI) in contaminated wounds can be dramatically reduced by a simple daily wound-probing protocol (WPP), according to the results of a prospective, randomized ...

A lack of consensus for the term “immunocompromised” suggests that studies demonstrating the effectiveness of infection prevention in surgical patients at a high risk of wound infection may have ...

Did our AI summary help? In the operating theatre, the job seems done once the final stitch is tied. But for many patients, the real test begins afterwards. Surgical wound infections, long regarded as ...

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Orthopaedics faculty at LSU Health New Orleans participated in a study comparing two antisepsis aqueous solutions in reducing the risk of infection in patients ...

Until eight months ago, it was believed at this hospital that these problems were limited to metropolitan areas and large hospitals, for only 7 infections had been encountered as complications in 1740 ...

CARSON CITY -- When state investigators asked a Sparrow Carson surgeon why he packed and stitched gauze into a patient’s infected surgical wound, he responded that the procedure was used “in the old ...

Lisa Farris worried that a nasty infection from recent liposuction and a tummy tuck was rapidly getting worse. So she phoned ...

When Ms. N came to Dr. John Hogan’s office last August, it had been nearly three months since she had felt like herself. Previously completely healthy, the 25-year-old woman had been plagued by ...