Is Patient Safety Your Highest Priority
“Deep bone infections, from whatever source, are a serious problem; keeping anything from touching or contacting the threads of a screw is very important. Our aim is to provide the surgeon with technically advanced implants that are easy to handle and can be implanted using improved aseptic technique.”
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Most patients are immunocompromised, and therefore more susceptible to infections.
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Exposure to local vancomycin and betadine irrigation of implant-bone interface is impossible post implantation.
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Bioavailability of systemic vancomycin at implant-bone interface is low to none, due to delay in host site integration.
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Latest evidences have shown occurrence of occult infection, which manifests as hardware loosening or dislodgement, thus requiring a revision surgery.
How Sterile Implants Become Contaminated:
From the patient’s own flora when transferred to the gloves, working surfaces and then to the implants. The quality of air is not pristine; studies have shown bacterial growth inside the sterile field with increase in exposure time.
The following image shows live O.R cultures from pedicle screws: