Infection after total knee replacement
Contents:
- Early and deep total knee infection
- Risks for total knee infection
- Diagnosis of total knee infection
- Prevention of total knee infection
Who decides whether you will have a total knee replacement operation? Curiously enough, you are the boss, you decide!
You have had no previous experience with total knee replacement operation and it is only natural that you are anxious. Feeling of anxiety and depression before the total knee operation is usual for all patients. (Curiously enough, patients with previous experience, people with the other knee already operated on, are anxious too).
The preoperative anxiety disappears during the week after the operation when you have realized that the surgery has succeeded and all is well. Your preoperative anxiety will be replaced be feelings of relaxation and relief.
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Curiously enough, high age is no obstacle for a total knee replacement, but low age is!
Studies demonstrated that:
Why?
Here are some answers: (more…)
Read MoreCheck with your doctor and hospital about what you will need. Generally you will be provided with the following equipment or need to obtain them from a home health equipment store. In most cases these devices will be needed for the first six weeks to help avoid the risk of dislocation before the hip capsule heals. Some of these devices may be helpful before surgery to make life less painful. I bought a reacher about a year before surgery and it helped a lot. (more…)
Read MoreTo arrive at the right diagnosis of the knee joint disease may be easy in some cases and it may involve several diagnostic procedures in other cases. Here follows a short description of some diagnostic methods: (more…)
Read MoreThe best indicators of success of a surgeon is the number of surgeries performed per year, experience with the tools and device, and the number of hip replacement surgeries per year for the hospital. If a doctor is doing 50 hip replacements or resurfacings per year, he or she is doing at least one per week and is more likely to have experience with a wide variety of patients and surgical challenges and is more likely to be on top of the latest techniques and hardware than a surgeon doing fewer. (more…)
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The diseases that most frequently lead to the total knee surgery are:
In about 130 years the bacteriologists used the relatively simple method to smear the pus or the swabs from the wound on to special substrate. The substrate is either fast, gelatin-like substance agar mixed with blood; or liquid, a kind of nutritious soup in a bottle.
Pus containing Staphylococcus aureus bacteria was smeared on the surface of the blood-agar plate. The blood-agar plate is within a glass dish and is covered by another dish to prevent downfall of other bacteria from the air. The whole culture is grown for at least 2 days in a constant temperature (32-37 degrees Celsius). (more…)
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