Infection News

DALLAS — Data presented at the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons Annual Meeting showed use of intraosseous vancomycin infusion may reduce periprosthetic joint infection vs. IV vancomycin in revision total knee arthroplasty.

SAN ANTONIO — In this video, Grant E. Garrigues, MD, FAAOS, spoke about common considerations for addressing infections in shoulder and elbow surgery such as diagnosis, preparation, prevention, gender differences, antibiotics and revision.

We are all called to make innumerable decisions every day, especially in surgery. Trouble is, many of us decide courses of actions in haste or amidst fear, fatigue or brain fog.

According to published results, patients with periprosthetic joint infection within 1 year after total hip arthroplasty may be at a significantly increased risk for mortality within 10 years after index THA.

Nasal colonization with Staphylococcus aureus accounted for most postoperative staph infections in a large cohort of adults who underwent surgery, according to a study published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.

Use of a tourniquet may reduce local tissue concentrations of cefazolin, which could increase the risk of periprosthetic joint infection for patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty, according to published data.

In this video from the Musculoskeletal Infection Society Annual Meeting, Carl A. Deirmengian, MD, discussed results that showed unsupervised machine learning may be able to accurately classify synovial fluid samples by infection status.

Presented results showed patients with periprosthetic joint infection after total hip arthroplasty may have similar rates of mortality compared with those of common cancers such as breast cancer and prostate cancer.

Presented results showed patients with periprosthetic joint infection may demonstrate a high prevalence of mental distress from prolonged hospitalization, pain and physical disability.