Narrative review covering the full spectrum of orthopaedic infection: diagnostic technologies, prevention strategies, implant-related biofilm infections, and treatment of post-traumatic osteomyelitis. Synthesizes experimental and clinical evidence to frame where current standards fall short and where emerging approaches are headed.
When you encounter an implant infection, implant stability determines your surgical strategy — stable hardware can often be retained with aggressive debridement and antibiotics, but the biofilm-mediated foreign body effect means antibiotics alone will almost always fail.
When planning osteomyelitis surgery, bioabsorbable antibiotic carriers offer equivalent eradication to PMMA beads without a mandatory return to the OR for bead removal.
Narrative review covering the full spectrum of orthopaedic infection: diagnostic technologies, prevention strategies, implant-related biofilm infections, and treatment of post-traumatic osteomyelitis. Synthesizes experimental and clinical evidence to frame where current standards fall short and where emerging approaches are headed.
When you encounter an implant infection, implant stability determines your surgical strategy — stable hardware can often be retained with aggressive debridement and antibiotics, but the biofilm-mediated foreign body effect means antibiotics alone will almost always fail.
When planning osteomyelitis surgery, bioabsorbable antibiotic carriers offer equivalent eradication to PMMA beads without a mandatory return to the OR for bead removal.