PMID: 7371288Mar 1, 1980Paper

The effect of previous surgery, operating room environment, and preventive antibiotics on postoperative infection following total hip arthroplasty

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
J P NelsonJ P McElhinney

Abstract

In 711 consecutive total hip arthroplasty operations, approximately 80% of patients were followed one to 7 years. Per priman operations outnumbered hips having had previous operations 511 to 200. The incidence of infection was higher in the hips having had previous operations (1.6 vs 3.5%). The overall incidence of deep infection was 16/711, or 23%. Analysis of the influences of operating room environment and preventative antibiotics revealed that there was a marked decrease in the attack rate of deep infection (7.6 vs 0.6%) when the Clean Room, personnel-isolator system, and preventative antibiotics were used. Reduced intraoperative wound bacterial contamination is accompanied by a reduced incidence of sepsis.

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