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To: originalbuckeye
But I am frightened as my mom suffered with a staph infection that the Dr took into her knee, when he put in the replacement. This is not uncommon...

That was then. This is now: "Most surgeons will therefore accept an average rate of deep infection of between 0.25% and 1.0% at one year after primary hip replacements and between 0.4% and 2% at one year after primary knee replacements"

The 2009 paper I am looking at goes on to say that prophylactic antibiotics cut those infection rates down to practically nothing.

12 posted on 03/08/2018 8:44:12 AM PST by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: palmer

My mom lived out the rest of her life without her knee. She was in a nursing home after the removal of the implant, where she then contracted a Pseudomonas infection through her Hickman catheter. She was moved to a major university for a month, complaining about her shoulder. They then discovered that the Pseudomonas had slowly eaten through her clavicle, which they then removed. The possibility of infection is still there. Still a frightening prospect.


13 posted on 03/08/2018 9:12:15 AM PST by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.)
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