Infection News

Injection drug users who develop septic arthritis of the shoulder have been linked to negative patient outcomes, as well as increased hospital stays and medical expenses, according to published results.

Intraoperative preparation with vancomycin-soaked grafts was linked with reduced infection rates in patients who underwent ACL reconstruction, according to presented results.

Modification from oral to IV antibiotic administration led to increased complications and adverse effects after revision shoulder arthroplasty, according to published results.

Published results showed no statistically significant differences in the rate of surgical site infections after foot and ankle trauma surgery with use of 1g or 2g of cefazolin.

Surgical site infection is a devastating complication after orthopedic surgery. There has been much debate regarding the efficacy of chlorhexidine gluconate for presurgical bathing to reduce surgical site infection risk.

When diagnosing periprosthetic joint infections, physicians should follow a stepwise model, using available resources within the practice or hospital, according to a presenter at the Current Concepts of Joint Replacement Spring Meeting.

Multiplex polymerase chain reaction, which uses polymerase chain reaction to simultaneously amplify several different next-generation DNA sequences, had 25.6% sensitivity when performed using Musculoskeletal Infection Society criteria for aspirate or tissue samples collected during 93 revision primary total joint arthroplasties and 77 primary total joint arthroplasties, according to study results.

Hospital-acquired conditions, such as surgical site infection and urinary tract infection, worsened among adult patients undergoing spinal deformity surgery who had an increased frailty score, based on findings from a retrospective review study.

Implementation of an infection reduction bundle may reduce the overall surgical site infection rate among pediatric patients undergoing spinal fusion, according to results.

Among 40 patients who underwent total knee arthroplasty for osteoarthritis, results of a prospective cohort study showed next-generation sequencing identified at least one positive organism that was native to the patient’s knee in 12 patients. Furthermore, 4.6 organisms were identified, on average, in patients with positive next-generation sequencing results.