Postoperative infection in total prosthetic replacement arthroplasty of the hip‐joint with special reference to the bacterial content of the air of the operating room
Postoperative infection in total prosthetic replacement arthroplasty of the hip‐joint with special reference to the bacterial content of the air of the operating room
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髋关节全假体置换术后感染特别关注手术室空气细菌含量
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发表时间:
1969
影响因子:
9.6
通讯作者:
N. Eftekhar
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作者:
J. Charnley;N. Eftekhar
A VAST amount of work has been done in the past 50 years in attempts to explain the infection that can follow 'clean ' surgical operations performed in modern operating rooms. There is still no completely satisfactory solution forthcoming. It is a paradox that simple adherence to Listerian principles has abolished virulent postoperative infection, but infection by mildly pathogenic staphylococci appears to be increasingly common. There is still uncertainty as to how often a wound is infected in the operating room and how often at a later date durmg the healing of the wound. There are those who deny that the air in the operating theatre is an important source of infection, because pathogens form only a minute fraction of the colonies grown from the air in it. This is clearly a matter of extreme importance in planning new hospital buildings if unnecessary expense is to be avoided. The surgical literature is nlow so immense that no useful purpose is served by artempting a complete review. For a concise statement of contemporary opinion on the subject of infection in operating theatres the reader is referred to the Listerian Centenary Symposium, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 1966, and to the Medical Research Council Report on this subject, April, 1968. A report of the Public Health Laboratory Service of England and Males (1960) indicates an ,average postoperative sepsis rate for the whole country of 9'7 per cent. Definitions of wound infection vary and the significance of many published figures is not. great. There are only a few studies of wound sepsis in relation to orthopaedics, and those particularly