**4. Protocol for irrigation maintenance**

This is a very easy procedure to do as it is repeated every four hours. Even a patient can be taught how to do it without any issues. The disadvantage to this is that the


patients are often in a hurry to get discharged and they would assume that administering more than 20 drops of antibiotics at a go will help them get better sooner than expected, which is never the case. They will be overdosing on the tissues. Instead; the irrigation system will start leaking from the wound site.
