Wound infections

Here’s your quick guide to surgical site infections.

Here’s what you should know about infected wound care.

Necrotizing fasciitis is a serious but rare wound infection that can develop if the patient is unaware of its symptoms.

An emerging trend in wound care research is the use of probiotics and healthy bacteria to prevent infection. You may have heard the phrase “good...

Sepsis is getting the attention it deserves. Sepsis, a degenerative condition caused by the body’s response to wound infection that can result in tissue damage, organ failure...

  A patient’s weight plays a large role in the rate of wound healing. It is widely known that people that are overweight or obese are more...

People should be mindful of their shoes, especially when hiking is involved. Now that spring is in full force, families can take advantage of the...

While maggots are considered one of nature’s grossest animals, they offer wound healing benefits. For hundreds of years, maggots have been at the core of wound...

Researchers hope to reduce the health care costs of surgical site infections with an innovative device. Surgical site infections (SSIs) are wound infections that occur...