Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients presenting with a draining wound more than 2 weeks after surgery should be treated for a probable ...

Drains are commonly used after spine surgery to help decrease wound drainage and potentially reduce infection rates, but according to a recently published study, when drain use was combined with ...

Osteomyelitis is an infection in your bone. Osteomyelitis in your foot or ankle often develops because you have a wound on your foot that isn’t healing. You can develop osteomyelitis even if you can’t ...

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 ...

If a wound has an odor, is it appropriate to start antibiotics? Antibiotics should not be started solely due to an odor in a wound. First, clarify whether the odor is associated with the drainage or ...

An open wound is any internal or external injury that exposes internal tissue to the external environment. People can sometimes treat acute open wounds at home with medications and natural remedies.