NURSING ANM AND GNM

Detailed explanation-1: -What is osteomyelitis? Osteomyelitis is a bone infection caused by bacteria or fungi. It causes painful swelling of bone marrow, the soft tissue inside your bones. Without treatment, swelling from this bone infection can cut off blood supply to your bone, causing bone to die.

Detailed explanation-2: -Osteomyelitis is an inflammation of the bone marrow and surrounding bone due to an infection. When a bone gets infected, the bone marrow (the soft part inside the bone) swells and presses against the bone’s blood vessels. The bone cells can’t get enough blood and parts of the bone may die.

Detailed explanation-3: -Staphylococcus aureus is the pathogen most frequently found, although more than one pathogen can be isolated from the cultures [1, 4, 8]. Treatment of osteomyelitis involves surgery and antibiotic therapy. Surgery plays a key role especially in chronic osteomyelitis.