The risk of infection is continuously increasing for surgical wounds when the wound is exposed to th...
The risk of infection is continuously increasing for surgical wounds when the wound is exposed to the external environment. There is strong wound infection risk for children, elderly, and surgical patients with underlying medical conditions. In addition, there is a high risk of infection for emergency surgeries and prolonged surgeries. How to treat and prevent surgical wound infections? I will introduce the surgical wound type, reasons and provide ways of surgical infection wound treatment and prevention to improve treatment quality and reduce wound care costs.
What Is The Most Common Infection of Surgical Wounds?
What Are The 4 Types of Surgical Wounds?
1. Clean Wounds
2.Clean-Contaminated Wounds
3.Contaminated Wounds
4.Dirty Wounds
What Are The Causes of Surgical Wound Infections?
1. Existing bacteria on the skin can spread to the surgical wound.
2. Bacteria in your body or on surgical instruments.
3. Poor postoperative wound care.
4.The Patient's Health Condition
How to Determine If a Surgical Wound Is Infected?
1. Redness and swelling
2. Delayed healing with fever
3. The wound is showing signs of pus discharge.
What Is the Fastest Way to Heal an Infected Wound?
1. Choose effective wound dressings
2. Use antibiotics appropriately.
Wound Dressings for Treating Infected Surgical Wounds
1. Dermlin Dressing
2. Hydrogel Dressing
3. Silver Ion Dressing
4. Foam Dressing
Measures for Preventing Surgical Wound Infections
1.Preoperative Measures
2. Postoperative Measures
FAQ
1. Which antibiotic is good for infected surgical wounds?
2. What is the best disinfectant for surgical wounds?
3. Do all infected surgical wounds require antibiotics?
4. What are the adverse reactions of Dermlin wound dressings?
Surgery creates incisions on the skin, which may lead to postoperative wound infections based on the most common bacteria, including staphylococcus, streptococcus, and pseudomonas.
What Are The 4 Types of Surgical Wounds?
Surgical wounds can be classified into one of four categories. These categories depend on how contaminated or clean the wound is, the risk of infection, and where the wound is located on the body.
This type wound without infection and inflammation, usually involves the eyes, skin, or vascular system. Such as skin abrasion.
This type wound has no signs of infection, but there is a risk of infection. For example, surgical wounds in the gastrointestinal tract may have a higher risk of infection.
There is significant infection risk in the process of surgery, such as wound debridement, surgical incision of the digestive tract.
There is currently an existing infection, and have high infection risk , such as incision and drainage of an abscess.
When surgical wounds are exposed to the external environment, various bacteria can cause infection or prolong healing time, especially bacteria that come into contact with the skin.
Bacteria may enter the wound during surgery from the patient's own skin, mucous membranes, or intestines, especially for gastrointestinal procedures. Additionally, if surgical instruments are not thoroughly sterilized, bacteria can be directly introduced into the wound, leading to infection.
Improper wound cleaning and inappropriate wound dressing selection can exacerbate the risk of surgical wound infection and affect the speed of wound healing.
Surgical wounds may be infected easily due to weaker resistance for children and elderly patients. Compared to other patients, there is a higher risk for surgical wound infection if patients have potential illnesses such as cardiovascular diseases and diabetes.
When a wound shows redness, swelling, pus discharge, and is accompanied by fever, it indicates that the wound is infected and requires immediate debridement or dressing change. In severe cases, antibiotics may be necessary. The following wound symptoms require special attention:
1. Redness and swelling.
2. Delayed healing with fever.
3. The wound is showing signs of pus discharge.
Choosing suitable wound dressings and using antibiotics appropriately may quickly alleviate wound infection. In comparison, antibiotics may work faster than wound dressings, with noticeable effects typically seen in about a week.
Selecting wound dressings with strong antibacterial properties and absorption capacity for surgical infection wounds, such as Dermlin wound dressings, which have nanoscale structure, effectively absorbs exudates and inhibits bacterial infection, compared with other type wound dressings.
Antibiotics can not only inhibit the growth of bacteria but also reduce tissue damage and necrosis caused by infection. The use of antibiotics can significantly improve patient survival rates, especially in cases of severe infection or infection complicated by other serious illnesses. However, it is important to note that patients allergic to antibiotics should not use them.
There are four suitable types of wound dressings for surgical infection, including: Dermlin dressing, hydrogel dressing, silver lon dressing and foam dressing.
Dermlin dressing is advanced wound care products for acute wounds and chronic wounds. It can quickly stop bleeding, absorb exudates, and inhibit bacterial growth to prevent infection. Most importantly, it can promote wound healing and inhibit scar formation with calcium, silicon and special nanostructures.
Hydrogel dressings help reduce bacterial growth by absorbing exudate and maintaining a moist environment, thereby controlling infection and promoting wound healing. Compared to traditional dressings, hydrogel dressings are less likely to adhere to the wound, minimizing re-injury during dressing changes and alleviating patient discomfort.
Silver ion dressings can slowly release silver ions, providing continuous antibacterial effects and reducing the frequency of dressing changes. Post-surgery wounds are prone to bacterial invasion due to the presence of sutures, incisions, and tissue damage; using silver dressings can help prevent infections. Silver ion dressings can effectively control infection and promote wound healing for infected surgical wounds.
Absorb a large amount of wound exudate with porous structure. Prevent and treat infectious wounds with antibacterial agents in foam dressings. At the same time, foam dressings have excellent breathability, providing good relief for wound healing, promoting wound recovery, and ensuring patient comfort.
Ensuring patients take showers or disinfect the skin around the wound. In addition, strictly sterilize surgical instruments and prepare antibiotics to prevent wound infection.
Proper skin preparation using residually-acting alcohol-based formulations that contain e.g. povidone-iodine or chlorhexidine gluconate, significantly reduces bacterial colonization at the surgical site.
Select suitable wound dressings for surgery, and replace regularly. Observe whether the wound is infected. redness.
Regularly monitor the patient's wound condition to observe for redness, swelling, and pus discharge, and routinely check indicators such as body temperature and white blood cell count to promptly detect signs of infection.
Amoxicillin-clavulanate.
Cephalexin.
Clindamycin.
Dicloxacillin.
Doxycycline.
Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole.
Iodine has been regarded as one of the most efficacious antiseptics to reduce infectious complications and topical iodine forms have been used for wound treatment.
Systemic antibiotics are required for cases with systemic signs of infection such as fever, significant skin erythema, cellulitis, or if evidence of deeper soft tissue involvement is found.
Before using antibiotics, it is necessary to test the patient for antibiotic allergies. Patients with allergic constitutions are not suitable for using antibiotics.
Dermlin wound dressing utilizes natural inorganic elements such as calcium and silicon, which are effective in promoting wound healing, and without adverse reactions for surgical patients so far.
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