Abstract
Posttraumatic Bacterial Infections in Extremities before and after Osteosynthesis in Small Animals
Highlights
Even though first-generation cephalosporins are always recommended as the first choice of antibiotic prophylaxis in orthopaedic surgery, they cannot eradicate all bacteria, which can enter into the fractured bone during orthopaedic procedures
It was suspected that it might be caused by posttraumatic osteomyelitis or cryptic infection. The purpose of this present study is to find out the type of aerobic bacteria, which plays an important role in the posttraumatic infection before and after fracture osteosynthesis
Since P. aeruginosa strains were frequently isolated, we separately evaluated the incidence of P. aeruginosa infection in each group of patients in order to properly determine the incidence of bacterial bone infection
Summary
In the patients at high risk of osteomyelitis development (polytraumatized or immunosuppressed patients, patients receiving prosthetic joint or large metallic implants), or in the patients where the infection is already present, it is important to know hospital-specific pathogens to select adequate complementary antibiotics (in our case we use cephalosporines together with quinolones such as enrofloxain). This emphasizes the need of epidemiologic studies, specific for each clinic.
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