Abstract
Scheduled orthopedic interventions are considered as “clean surgery”, unless the intervention follows open fracture injury-related conditions or in the presence of spontaneous soft tissue infection.
Highlights
Scheduled orthopedic interventions are considered as “clean surgery”, unless the intervention follows open fracture injury-related conditions or in the presence of spontaneous soft tissue infection
To investigate whether some patient populations and types of surgery would be at particular risk for anaerobic infections
Anaerobic coinfections were related to plates, mostly in the lower extremities and to open fractures (8/150 vs. 57/2590; p=0.01) and polymicrobial infections (33/572 vs. 32/1853; p
Summary
Scheduled orthopedic interventions are considered as “clean surgery”, unless the intervention follows open fracture injury-related conditions or in the presence of spontaneous soft tissue infection. I Uckay1*, B Kressmann1, A Agostinho1, C Landelle2, M Al-Mayahi1, D Pittet2 From 3rd International Conference on Prevention and Infection Control (ICPIC 2015) Geneva, Switzerland. Introduction Scheduled orthopedic interventions are considered as “clean surgery”, unless the intervention follows open fracture injury-related conditions or in the presence of spontaneous soft tissue infection.
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