Antibiofilm-controlling surgery and antibiotics improve treatment success following implant-related infection after hip fracture and should be considered regardless of fracture type. Acute infections are a "second hit" for frail patients recovering from initial surgery and are associated with increased ...
Musculoskeletal trauma leading to broken and damaged bones and soft tissues can be a life-threating event. Modern orthopaedic trauma surgery, combined with innovation in medical devices, allows many severe injuries to be rapidly repaired and to eventuall
The relationship between extent of mobilisation within the first postoperative day and 30-day mortality after hip fracture surgery Objective: To determine the association between the extent of mobilisation within the first postoperative day and 30-day mortality after hip fracture. Desi... MT Kristensen...
Due to the rise in our aging population, a disproportionate demand for total joint arthroplasty (TJA) in the elderly is forecast. Periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) represents one of the most challenging complications that can occur following TJA, and as the number of primary and revision TJAs...
Application of quality care in prevention of general surgery wound infection in elderly patients ObjectiveTo evaluate application of quality care in prevention of general surgery wound infection in elderly patients.Methods116 cases of elderly patients ... H Huang,S Chen - 《Journal of Practical Nursin...
The factors associated with nosocomial infection in elderly hip fracture patients: gender, age, and comorbidity Purpose: This is a retrospective case-control study to ascertain the factors influencing nosocomial infection (NI) in elderly patients with hip fractures. ... Y Deng,Z Zheng,S Cheng,.....
- 《Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery-american Volume》 被引量: 599发表: 1998年 Treatment of an infected total hip replacement with the PROSTALAC system. Part 1: Infection resolution. INTRODUCTION: Infection after total hip replacement (THR) adversely affects patients' function and health-related ...
The interactions between obesity and infectious diseases have recently received increasing recognition as emerging data have indicated an association between obesity and poor outcome in pandemic H1N1 influenza infection. Obesity is an established risk fa
Sponge could provide answer to infection risk in hip surgery.Kosub, David
Figure 4. A 70-year-old female with a history of spinal surgery. Now presents with back pain and raised inflammatory markers. ESR =; WCC =. A 99mTc-UBI scan was performed to assess for possible spine infection postsurgery. The whole-body anterior and posterior images demonstrated no focal ...