http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/spanish/ency/article/000863.htm http://www.msd.es/publicaciones/mmerck_hogar/seccion_18/seccion_18_201.html http://asclepium.blogspot.com/2012/10/como-drenar-un-absceso.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=78HSzSeqJMo

http://youtu.be/CsP36Bc405g

It is a collection of pus in or on the skin.

Skin abscesses may occur after: A bacterial infection (often staphylococcus) A wound or minor injury

An cutaneous abscess can appear in any part of body. The problem affects people of all ages.

An abscess is an pus cavity where it accumulates. You can have abscesses in almost anywhere in your body.

What materials do we need? 1. Operating room or treatment room adequate space you can place the patient and work in comfort and suitable light source. 2. Saline, povidone iodine, hydrogen peroxide. 3. A scalpel. 5. Gauze. 6. Drape better fenestrated. 7. Local anesthetic.

8. syringe and needles.

1. How do we do it? First, you have to place the patient in a comfortable position and confirm by clinical history is an abscess and nothing else, and you can also make the intervention 2. We stand sterile gloves and cleaned with an iodine solution abscess area 3. sterile surgical drape placed on him, we can put everything we need 4. With a syringe, introduce Local anesthetic encircling the abscess 5. We made an incision in the area featuring fluctuation 6. Now use your hands to help drain the abscess. 7. Make washed with saline solution 8. finally put a drain with pad and the patient will be seen the next day to Give you healing.