You can be discharged from the hospital 7 to 14 days after internal fracture fixation surgery. Usually hospitalized for 7 days and discharged, because the open surgical incision site infection period is 7 days. If the condition permits, you can wait for 14 days for the incision to completely heal and remove the stitches before being discharged from the hospital.
1. 7 days after surgery, if there is no redness, swelling, heat, pain or discharge from the incision, it means that the surgical incision is recovering well and there is no infection at present. You can choose to go home for rest and return to the hospital one week later to remove the stitches.
2. If the patient is emotionally stable, in a good mood, and conditions permit, it is best to stay in the hospital for 14 days, because 14 days is the time when the incision is completely healed, and the probability of infection is very small, and the probability of adverse events is reduced under the guidance of the supervising doctor and nurse.
3. However, if the incision is found to be red, swollen, pus-filled or the laboratory test result is not good, it is necessary to continue to hospitalize, use antibiotics, change the medicine, or even incise the pus-filled area for drainage to avoid adverse consequences.
If there is any discomfort of the incision after discharge from the hospital, you should go to the hospital in time, and the doctor will arrange a scientific treatment plan, and you should not take it lightly or deal with it by yourself, so as to avoid delaying the condition.