is osteomylitis considered a wound infection
The best way to prevent osteomyelitis is to prevent skin and wound infections. If you have a minor skin wound, make sure to clean the wound well and cover it with a clean, sterile bandage. Always look for signs of infection such as redness, tenderness, swelling, pain, or discharge.
Osteomyelitis (Bone Infection). Osteomyelitis is the medical term for a bone infection. Bone infections are caused when a break in the skin allows germs, usually bacteria, to spread into bone tissue. Bacteria can also spread from infections in other parts of the body by traveling through the blood to infect a bone.