Surgical Techniques and ApproachesPost-Operative CareInfection Controlendovascular surgerykeyhole surgeryminimally invasive surgeryopen surgeryskinstructures
Why is surgical wounds necessary?
Surgical wounds are unavoidable for patients needing an operation to help cure their illness. The invention of less invasive surgical procedures such as key-hole surgery allow treatments with minimum surgical wounds. In this video, Dr Jaffer explains why in some cases, surgical wounds are still necessary for the benefit of the patient.
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In this day and age of keyhole surgery and endovascular surgery and all sorts of minimally invasive surgery, the need for wounds is much less than it used to be. But often we still need to do open surgery with cuts in your skin to get to the structures underneath. And for that reason, we still have to manage surgical wounds. And those surgical wounds need to be managed in a way that they don't get infected and they heal well.
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