I’ve been battling a staph infection in my surgical wound for the past week. Sleeping over 18 hours a day. I questioned initially the amount I was sleeping to be told it’s normal. It isn’t.

However, if the bacteria enter the skin or bloodstream through cuts or open wounds ... this kind of staph infection because the prosthesis may be contaminated during placement surgery.

Pus is a thick yellowish, whitish, or greenish fluid made up of dead white blood cells, dead tissues, and dead bacteria or fungi. Also called liquor puris or purulent exudate, it is produced as part ...

At face value, our results may seem intuitive – surgical wound infections come from bacteria that hang out around that part of the body. But this realization has some potentially powerful ...

Introduction: The preoperative phase is an important period in which to prevent surgical site infections (SSIs). Prophylactic antibiotic use helps ... all unrelated to this research except one recent ...

Screening all surgical admissions had little effect in a European hospital with a relatively low infection rate. Faced with soaring rates of nosocomial methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ...

Treating these infections is estimated to cost in excess of US$350 million each year. The primary etiology of these infections is Staphylococcus aureus, over 60% of which is estimated to be ...

Stitches may be needed for a deep bite or a wound that does not stop bleeding. Surgery may be necessary to repair muscle ... or without confusion Muscle or joint pain Other signs of infection listed ...

In late November, a post-surgery infection ... with a painful open wound and worsening complications. By the time she returned to HSC, the damage from the untreated infection made her leg ...

Wearable biosensors are a fast-growing area within health care and technology, transforming how we monitor and manage health.