How can we cut down on infections following surgery?

Posted on September 13, 2011

Infections are no good following surgery.  They can cause cellulitis (redness in the skin), poor wound healing, and scarring.  Rates of drug resistant bacteria are rising. 

We do many things to decrease the risk of infection:

What can you do? 

When I meet with you after surgery, which I do frequently, I am looking at your incisions.  I am evaluating everything.  After being a surgeon for over 15 years, I can see things brewing.  If you aren’t healing how I expect you should, then I want to figure out why and fix it.  Jumping on things early avoids bigger issues- from infection to just better scarring.