Ortho Bullets Podcast Review - Prosthetic Joint Infection

According to the most recent literature, wiplot al count of greater than 11 hundred and p m ns greater than 64 % should be considered suggestive of infection in a total nearthoplaste. In an earlier smaller study, mason at all reported on 31 septic total ne arthoplasti failures and concluded that aspirates with the white blood cell count greater than two thousand are highly suggestive of infection. When both tests yield results below their cut off values, the negative productive value was 98 point two%. The optimal cut point for the snovial fluid cell count was greater than three thousand white blood cells per mill leter,. which yielded the highest combined sensitivity specificity, positive predictive