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Miloslav Mišánik1, Marek Smolár1, Diana Musová1
1Clinic of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Jessenius Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University Bratislava, Martin, Slovak Republic.
Abstract:
Severe pyogenic soft-tissue infections (SSTI) are a frequent cause of morbidity among people living with HIV (PLHIV) in resource-limited hospitals. Drawing on five months of frontline work in a district surgical unit in South Sudan, this field report distills practical lessons into a simple, resource-adapted algorithm for triage, source control, antibiotics, and wound care. Core steps include bedside sepsis screening with qSOFA, prompt empiric antibiotics aligned with the WHO EML/AWaRe approach, and decisive operative debridement without waiting for advanced diagnostics when necrotizing infection is suspected, followed by planned re-look procedures. Low-cost wound-care options (eg, diluted hypochlorite/povidone-iodine transitioning to saline gauze) and loss-to-follow-up-aware discharge practices are emphasized. The aim is to standardize care and shorten time to debridement in district-level services rather than report outcomes. Keywords: pyogenic soft-tissue infection; HIV; resource-limited settings; necrotizing fasciitis.
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