Wound infection is one of the commonest complications of any surgical procedure.
Although most wound infections are superficial and mild, rarely it can be large, deep and lethal.
Most wound infections follow surgery in areas that are not clean(dirty or clean contaminated environments). Emergency Appendectomy is one such common environment, especially if the Appendix is already perforated.
Most straight forward Acute Appendicitis under the cover of perioperative antibiotics recover well without complication of wound infection.
Some perforated appendix develop wound infection postoperatively regardless of any antibiotics given.These patients will require wound dressings on a regular basis for about 1-2 weeks until the wound is clean enough(picture above) before it is ready for Secondary suturing.
Some patients may opt for regular periodic dressings till
