Wound healing and wound infection. What surgeons and anesthesiologists can do.

What Researchers Did

This article reviews strategies for surgeons and anesthesiologists to enhance wound healing and prevent wound infections.

What They Found

The authors outlined comprehensive strategies across three phases of care, preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative, to optimize wound healing and prevent infections. Key recommendations included addressing factors like malnutrition and hyperglycemia preoperatively, focusing on surgical technique and appropriate antibiotic use intraoperatively, and ensuring pain relief, warming, and adequate volume resuscitation postoperatively.

Canadian Relevance

This study has no specific Canadian connection, as it is a general review of surgical practices.

Study Limitations

This article is a narrative review offering guidance rather than presenting original research with specific experimental data or statistical analysis.