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Multiple Cultures and Extended Incubation for Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Revision: Impact on Clinical Care.
J Arthroplasty. 2013 Jul 22;
Authors: Dehaan A, Huff T, Schabel K, Doung YC, Hayden J, Barnes P
Abstract
The impact on patient care of introducing a protocol of obtaining 5 or more intra-operative separate tissue biopsies that were cultured for 10days was assessed for hip and knee arthroplasty revision. The charts of seventy-three patients undergoing 77 cases of revision arthroplasty were reviewed one year post-operatively. When compared to the prior standard of obtaining only one intra-operative culture, the protocol changed the microbiological diagnosis in 26/77 cases (34%, 95% Confidence Interval (CI): 23-45%) and antibiotic treatment in 23/77 cases (30%, 95% CI: 20-41%). In addition, the protocol had a predictive value of joint sterility in culture negative cases of 95% (95% CI: 85-99%). This data demonstrated the new protocol significantly changed patient care, and suggests that 1 or 2 cultures are insufficient. Adopting a similar protocol should be considered by surgeons and institutions as a new minimum standard for management of prosthetic joint infections.
PMID: 23886405 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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