Increasing drainage from the wound (may become thick, tan, green, or yellow) A bad smell Your wound looks larger, deeper, dried out, or dark. Your temperature goes above 100 F for more than 4 hours.

Print News Ask the wound care expert about … post-surgical rehab patients Fatima Naqvi, MD March 11, 2025 Share › ...

Unlike stitches, surgical staples don’t dissolve as your incision or wound heals. For this reason, they require some special care and must be removed by your doctor once the incision has healed.

According to published results, prophylactic intraoperative incisional wound irrigation with an antiseptic solution was associated with reduced surgical site infections compared with use of either ...

Wound dehiscence occurs when a surgical incision reopens. Learn about symptoms, risk factors, serious complications, prevention, and more.

Surgical sealing made better with robust thermosensitive bioadhesives Improvements made possible with strategic chemical modifications Date: March 29, 2023 Source: Terasaki Institute for ...

May 23, 2011 — Mechanical manipulation of the surgical wound environment with a dynamic stress-shielding polymer device may significantly reduce scar formation, according to the results of ...

A team of scientists has developed a bio-compatible surgical patch that releases non-opioid painkillers directly to the site of a wound for days and then dissolves away. The polymer patch provides ...

News Release 2-Aug-2024 “How much my wound is healed...” Check in real time with surgical suture and needle! Peer-Reviewed Publication DGIST (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology) ...