When returning home after surgery, wound care, ensuring that the surgeon's incision heals well and is not infected will contribute to the success of the surgery. It is even necessary to maintain the wound so that it heals quickly and achieves high aesthetics. To do so, it is necessary to know how to care for the surgical wound after surgery with some simple rules that anyone can do at home.

Surgery is a special treatment intervention on patients, requiring careful preparation from many sides to achieve the highest success. In which, the role of the patient himself also contributes significantly, especially skin hygiene. However, not everyone knows the regulations on shaving the area preparing for surgery.

Fasting is one of the familiar rules to prepare before surgery. However, not everyone knows why it is necessary to fast before surgery, how long before surgery is reasonable or how to fast. Hopefully the information below will be useful, helping you have the most thoughtful preparation before surgery.

Surgical site infection is one of the common hospital infections. According to research in developed countries, about 5% of surgical patients suffer from surgical site infection. In Vietnam, the rate of surgical site infection is higher, up to 10.5%. Preventing surgical site infection is extremely important and necessary.

Every year, the number of patients with superficial and deep surgical site infections is estimated at about 2 million people. This is the most common type of infection, with the largest number of hospital-acquired infections, and the treatment of superficial and deep surgical site infections also has different points.

Among hospital infections, surgical site infections are among the most common. In our country, about 10% of millions of surgeries have surgical site infections.

Surgical site infection is a very common type of infection, occurring in large numbers and often recorded in hospital infections. In Vietnam, surgical site infection accounts for 5-10% of over 2 million people undergoing surgery each year.

Surgery is one of the surgical methods used to effectively treat a number of diseases. However, this is an invasive intervention, so patients often encounter many complications after surgery, including postoperative bleeding. Postoperative bleeding is a postoperative complication that doctors should not ignore, affecting the health and recovery of patients, so it should be treated immediately when this condition is detected.

There are many factors that affect the recovery process after surgery, one of which is nutrition. Because after each surgery, no matter how small or large, the patient will lose blood and strength. They will need a good and reasonable diet to provide enough nutrition for the wound to heal quickly and recover quickly.

Surgical site infection is a complication after surgery, prolonging the hospital stay as well as reducing the ability to recover. Therefore, it is necessary to know how to care for the surgical site after discharge from the hospital, recognize early signs of infection for timely treatment.