The surgery for MRSA infections may be as simple and minimally invasive as a biopsy, but they can be more extreme when infected areas are surgically removed.

Common surgeries performed on patients with MRSA infection are:

• Incision and drainage – this is done when antibiotics alone can’t treat the infection. It is a surgical procedure that opens the wound, bone, or organ so that it can be drained. lancing is usually indicated once the abscess has developed from a harder serous inflammation to a softer pus stage.

• Surgery – when incision, drainage, and antibiotics are not effective. The infected and damaged area may be removed with surgery.

• Amputation – performed when the patient has associated systemic diseases like diabetes and the infection is very severe.