What is the NAME OF AN INFECTION AFTER A SURGERY IN THE AREA?

Question

WHERE THE CUT TOOK PLACE

Answer 1

Surgical site infections (SSI's) are most commonly abscesses. The most common bacterium involved is staphylococcus epidermidis or staph aureus. These bacteria tend to form collections of pus which are walled off from th surrounding tissue. An incision is an ideal place for them to live because there is already a space below the skin for them to occupy. The treatment for an abscess is to open it, so that it can no longer contain pus, and then pack it with clean gauze so that it can heal from the edges inward, without walling off again and enclosing pus.

Cellulitis is the next most common kind of SSI. Cellulitis is red and swollen, even warm to the touch. The area of redness and swelling extends several centimeters away from the wound. The most common type of bacterium associated with cellulitis is strep (most commonly "strep viridans") Unfortunately, I will always assume that an SSI is a wound abscess and I'll open it, which means that if it's just cellulitic, nothing will come out! Either way, with good local wound care and perhaps some oral antibiotics, these heal up almost as well as if they had never occurred.

Answer 2

I believe it's called a "staph infection".

Answer 3

wound infection

Answer 4

an infection
that's what it's called

you're not asking anything specific at all

Answer 5

sepsis, or staph might be the cause of it.