Infection News

CHICAGO — Management of infection in the shoulder is based on the timing of the infection, the host and organism type, according to research presented here.

The total 1-year health care cost for patients who develop complex surgical site infections, or SSIs, following hip and knee replacements is more than four times higher compared with patients who do not sustain an infection, according to study results published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.

The FDA announced today a 5-year plan to promote the development of new antimicrobials for drug-resistant bacteria. The plan includes changes to the reimbursement system, which may make drugs more profitable for developers, as well as some nontraditional treatment approaches.

Recently published results showed a decrease in craniotomy and ventricular shunt infection incidence, as well as significant cost savings, when physician awareness of these factors increased.

There was a correlation between postoperative glucose levels and an increased risk of periprosthetic joint infection after total joint arthroplasty, according to published results.

Unless rates are reduced, researchers predict that surgical site infections following knee and hip arthroplasties will increase by 14% between 2020 and 2030 in the United States.

About one-third patients at a level 1 trauma center did not meet the CDC definition for acute postoperative infection following fracture fixation, a presenter at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting said.

Results published in Orthopedics showed hyperbaric oxygen may safely manage and be a potentially useful adjunctive intervention for chronic osteomyelitis of various etiologies.

PHILADELPHIA — At the Musculoskeletal Infection Society Annual Open Scientific Meeting, Andy O. Miller, MD, infectious disease specialist at Hospital for Special Surgery, said patients with rheumatoid arthritis who were on biologics had higher rates of Staphylococcus aureus skin carriage.

PHILADELPHIA — Results presented here showed variability in the time to transport, process and incubate culture samples, with almost half of the sample cultures processed outside the time window recommended by the Infectious Diseases Society of America.