The primary treatment for skin abscesses is incision and drainage. 20 Readers are referred to the Video in Clinical Medicine that explains the standard techniques for drainage of an abscess (www ...

Abscess Treatment: Self-Care at Home If the abscess is small (less than 1 cm or less than a half-inch across), applying warm compresses to the area for about 30 minutes 4 times daily may help.

Ladde, J., et al. (2020) A Randomized Controlled Trial of Novel Loop Drainage Technique Versus Standard Incision and Drainage in the Treatment of Skin Abscesses.

Case Studies > Dermatology What Caused This Rapidly Enlarging Facial Abscess? — Expansion over several weeks necessitated timely diagnosis and ruling out mimicking conditions by Kate Kneisel ...

Results: Sixty-nine children were identified with culture-proved CA-MRSA skin and soft tissue abscess. Treatment consisted of drainage in 96% of patients and wound packing in 65%.

A better way to treat many skin abscesses in the emergency department has been explained by researchers in a new article. The findings are important due to the emergence of community-acquired ...

Medically reviewed by Jennifer Schwartz, MD Pus is a thick yellowish, whitish, or greenish fluid made up of dead white blood ...

Management of Skin Abscesses in the Era of Methicillin-ResistantStaphylococcus aureus. New England Journal of Medicine, 2014; 370 (11): 1039 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMra1212788 ...