4 ms·
I've just spent almost three weeks in hospital. I went in for routine elective surgery and a two night stay. I ended up in for around three weeks after post-op
by phillc73 11y ago
I've just spent almost three weeks in hospital.
I went in for routine elective surgery and a two night stay. I ended up in for around three weeks after post-operation infection. Fortunately, it wasn't MRSA and easily controlled with antibiotics (some of which I had a bad reaction to.... good times). At home now, but still having the dressings changed on open wounds.
This idea gets a big up vote from me. Reducing the risk of infection could have had a massive positive impact on my life over the last month.
- jonwachob91 11y agoDid the hospital tell you what the source of the infection was?
- phillc73 11y agoNo, and I'm not sure they knew. Basically, I had the operation, spent two nights in hospital and came home for two nights. The second night at home I had severe headache, elevated temperature, swelling around one of the wounds, redness and heat. Basically, the fun of an infection. Back to hospital, they cut me open, cleaned me up, put me on IV antibiotics and kept me in for another two weeks. I suppose the infection could have been something I picked up at home or could have been some instrument not properly sterilised. The surgeon said they have about one in 10,000 who get an infection after the type of operation I had. If it was poor sterilisation in the workflow somewhere, I could hope your startup might have been able to have reduced the risk there.