Infection News

VANCOUVER, British Columbia —  At the Orthopaedic Trauma Association Annual Meeting, Saam Morshed, MD, said a screening and treatment protocol for intranasal Staphylococcus aureus infection is important for reducing surgical site infections in patients who undergo surgery for fracture repair.

The FDA has granted NuVasive expanded 510(k) clearance for the Precice system from NuVasive Specialized Orthopedics. The expanded indications now include open and closed fracture fixation, treatment for pseudarthrosis, malunions and nonunions, and bone transport.

Results from this study demonstrated that at 1 year after removal of a total hip arthroplasty implant followed by placement of a cement spacer for periprosthetic joint infection, 16.8% of patients retained their spacers and 10.8% needed repeat debridement.

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Thoroughly assessing a patient prior to surgery can go a long way toward decreasing the patient’s postoperative risk of developing an infection, according to a presenter here.

Of the children who experienced bone or joint infection, 71% had the identical Kingella kingae bacterium present in their throats, suggesting that children with osteoarticular infections may benefit from examination for oropharyngeal infections to expedite diagnosis.

Every 2 years since October 2001, the Trauma and Musculoskeletal Diseases Foundation and the Zeromski Hospital’s Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery have hosted the International Knee Arthroplasty Symposium. This symposium is an event approved by EFORT, ESSKA and the Polish Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology.

EFORT is organizing 10 European Fora each year, under the supervision of EFORT Fora Chair, Professor George Macheras from Athens. Launched in 2002, the project aims at holding specific EFORT symposia during the annual congresses of our member national societies.

Use of a hexapod frame led to union and infection eradication among patients with an infected tibial nonunion with bone loss, according to results.

SAN DIEGO — When its use is considered in addition to the traditional test results for periprosthetic joint infection, the alpha-defensin test improved the ability to predict positive cultures both when the traditional tests were equivocal or when they were all aligned toward one diagnosis, according to Gregory S. Kazarian, BA.

Results from this study demonstrated the infection burden for total hip arthroplasty and total knee arthroplasty increased over 6 years among international arthroplasty registries.