Tag: post operative care
Wound Care following skin graft surgery
Hi everyone,
To listen to a podcast about how to look after your wounds following skin graft surgery, click here.
After removal of a skin cancer, or after trauma, you may have a wound which is too large to be closed directly with sutures. In these cases, we may need to do something a little fancy like a skin graft.
A skin graft involves taking skin from one part of the body and moving to a wound bed in another part of the body where (hopefully) it will stay and survive. Skin graft...Read More
Breast implant surgery and antibiotics
Are antibiotics important in breast augmenation/ breast implant surgery?
Here is a recent question answered by Sydney Plastic Surgeon, Dr Damian Marucci, on the breast.com.au forum:
I have researched all aspects if surgery. Though my question relates to post operative care. Some patients have mentioned anti-biotics. I’m aware antibiotics are to fight a viral infection, so I can not understand to what benefit these antibiotics would be post operatively. Could you please explain? what are...Read More