Infection News

TAMPA, Fla. — According to presented results, skin antisepsis for surgical site infection in patients undergoing surgery for an open fracture was effective with both aqueous 10% povidone-iodine and aqueous 4% chlorhexidine gluconate.

A significant complication following total joint arthroplasty, the reported incidence of periprosthetic joint infection ranges from 1% to 2% depending on the involved joint, according to the published literature.

PJI is a dreaded complication of primary and revision total joint arthroplasty, with an estimated incidence of 1% to 2% in primary arthroplasty and up to 10% in revision procedures.

Patients who received a kidney-pancreas or heart transplant were more likely to be diagnosed with a bone and joint infection compared with other transplant recipients, according to a study in the American Journal of Transplantation.

In this blog, Victoria Tam, PA-S, discusses the etiology, risk factors, diagnosis and treatment of PJI. She includes a clinical case study to demonstrate how a prosthetic joint infection is diagnosed and managed.

Prosthetic joint replacement surgery changes the lives of millions annually, but complications, including prosthetic joint infection, occur in 1% to 2% of patients following large joint replacement.

A single-stage protocol using a high-delivery, bioabsorbable gentamicin-loaded ceramic carrier yielded low rates of long-term infection recurrence for patients with chronic osteomyelitis, according to published results.

Results presented at the Musculoskeletal Infection Society Annual Meeting showed synovial biomarkers did not demonstrate high prognostic utility for predicting failure following reimplantation.

A recent study adds to growing data showing that oral antibiotics are as good as IV antibiotics in periprosthetic joint infection, and the data show that an early switch can be considered in the right scenario.

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center found a 5% incidence of unexpected positive sonication cultures with at least five colony-forming units in patients undergoing presumed aseptic revision total joint arthroplasty.