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March 24, 2020

Paper of the Week: Work Relative Value Units Do Not Adequately Support the Burden of Infection Management in Revision Knee Arthroplasty

Linsen T. Samuel, MD, MBA, Daniel Grits, BS, Alexander J. Acuña, BS, Nicolas S. Piuzzi, MD, Carlos A. Higuera-Rueda, MD, and Atul F. Kamath, MD The Journal of Bone and…

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March 17, 2020

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Paper of the Week: Mortality and adverse joint outcomes following septic arthritis of the native knee: a longitudinal cohort study of patients receiving arthroscopic washout

Simon G F Abram, Abtin Alvand, Andrew Judge, David J Beard, Andrew J Price Lancet Infect Dis 2020;20: 341–49. Published Online December 17, 2019 https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(19)30419-0 PMID: 31862240 Summary by Michael…

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March 10, 2020

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Paper of the Week: Risk Factors for Positive Cultures in Presumed Aseptic Revision Spine Surgery

Steinhaus ME, Salzmann SN, Lovecchio F, Shifflett GD, Yang J, Kueper J, Sama AA, Girardi FP, Cammisa FP, Hughes AP. SPINE, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 177–184, Feb. 2019 Summary…

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March 3, 2020

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Paper of the Week: A Randomized Trial of Static and Articulating Spacers for the Treatment of Infection Following Total Knee Arthroplasty

Nahhas CR, Chalmers PN, Parvizi J, Sporer SM, Berend KR, Moric M, Chen AF, Austin MS, Deirmengian GK, Morris MJ, Della Valle CJ J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2020 Feb…

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February 25, 2020

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Paper of the week: Streamlining Hospital Treatment of Prosthetic Joint Infection

Goodson KM, Kee JR, Edwards PK, Novack AJ, Stambough JB, Siegel ER, Barnes CL, Mears SC. J Arthroplasty 2020 Mar;35(3S):S63-S68. doi: 10.1016/j.arth.2019.10.056 Summary by Mohammad S Abdelaal MD, MSc While…

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