Preventing Infections after Lower Limb Artery Surgery
Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is a condition where the arteries that supply blood to the limbs become narrowed or blocked, reducing blood flow and leading to symptoms like pain or cramping in the legs when walking.
Severe PAD may require surgery (arterial reconstruction) to repair the arteries, but infections at the surgical site are a major concern, causing serious illness and death.
- Antibiotics seem to reduce surgical site infections in people undergoing surgery to fix the lower limb arteries.
- Closed incision negative pressure therapy, a special wound care technique, may reduce the graft infection rate and the surgical site infection rate.
- Other interventions appear to make little or no difference in reducing the incidence of graft and surgical site infections.
These infections have a large impact on health care worldwide.
Author's summary: Surgery and infections in PAD require careful management.
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