I currently work on a progressive care floor and care for post cabg and valve patients. For the past several years the surgeons having been using what is called Silverlon dressings on the sternal incisions. When researching this specific dressing, it has shown that when using the silverlon dressing for 7 days, it is able to cut sternal wound infections down by almost 50%.
I am doing some research and wanting to know what kind of dressings (if any) are being used on your open heart patients?
