Watch this video to learn simple tips to prevent an infection while in the hospital and at home including washing your hands and keeping your incision clean.
Watch the safety precautions taken to protect you while you are in the hospital, what you can do to help prevent re-infection, and how to recognize the symptoms of re-infection.
After surgery, it's very important to guard against infection, especially at the site of the incision, or surgical wound. This program will teach patients signs of infection to watch out for and what they can do to help prevent infection after surgery.
Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci, or VRE, is a resistant bacteria that can sometimes cause infections of the urinary tract, the bloodstream or wounds. This program will explain some simple things patients can do to protect themselves from VRE.