What to do when a surgical wound splits

After surgery, the patient’s wound with dehiscence, depending on whether the patient’s wound is combined with infection, the degree of local healing is different, the clinic can often take different treatments. First, if the patient’s wound with acute infection, wound combined with more fluid, pus, can be used hydrogen peroxide, vitality iodine, saline thoroughly wash the wound, remove the local necrotic tissue, can be given to petroleum jelly gauze tamponade wounds, drain the wound exudate. By actively changing the treatment, can promote the wound inflammation faster absorption, so that the wound healing as soon as possible. Second, if the patient’s wound is not acutely infected and the degree of wound dehiscence is relatively mild, we can consider the second wound debridement and suture treatment under local infiltration anesthesia, and then remove the local silk thread after the wound is completely healed. It can avoid long time dressing change treatment, greatly shorten the patient’s wound healing time, and clinically achieve better results.