Contamination vs Osteomyelitis
| Contamination | = | Bacteria where it shouldn’t be |
| Osteomyelitis | = | Disease process of an Infection of the Bone |
One thing to be clear is that contamination is not Osteomyelitis.
Contamination is when a microbe is somewhere it shouldn’t be. An example of this is your dirt covering an open fracture.
Osteomyelitis is a disease process, the details of which we’ll cover later.
One way to think of it is Sars n-cov2 is the virus whereas COVID-19 is the disease process that arises from it.
Not all contamination causes Osteomyelitis and certainly good initial debridement and secondary wound care can prevent it.
