A finger pierced by rusty wire rope can be treated with tetanus antitoxin, debridement of the injured area and oral antibiotics.
1. Play tetanus antitoxin: rusty wire rope often has tetanus bacillus, after the injury can lead to tetanus infection and adverse consequences. Therefore, tetanus antitoxin needs to be injected in time to prevent tetanus after injury.
2. Wound debridement: The wound is easily infected due to contamination, so it needs to be thoroughly debrided, disinfected, and treated with regular dressing changes.
3. Oral antibiotics: after the wound because of the possibility of infection, need to take amoxicillin, cefaclor and other antibiotics to prevent and control infection.
After your fingers are pierced by the rusty steel wire rope, you must use debridement, disinfection, and regular medication changes to try to avoid causing infection. If infection has occurred, you also need to clean the wound again, remove necrotic tissue, drainage of purulent secretions, and regular medication changes.