Recon | Prosthetic Joint Infection
The Orthobullets Podcast
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How to Choose the Right Local Antibiotics
Each 40 gram bag of cement should have 3 grams of ancomycin and 4 grams of tobermysin added. Fluconosol is preferred for antifungal infections, which has a similar efficacy with IV and oral formulations. In terms of re-implantation, be sure to send the tissue specimens for culture and frozen section pathology,. implant only if all preoperative and intraoperative measures are acceptable. Finally, know that there is a poorer prognosis for two-stage revision for resistant organisms.
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