International Survey of Practice for Prophylactic Systemic Antibiotic Therapy in Hip and Knee Arthroplasty

• Main Authors: Thomas Parsons (Author), Jonathan French (Author), Takeshi Oshima (Author), Francisco Figueroa (Author), Thomas Neri (Author), Antonio Klasan (Author), Sven Putnis (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2022-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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(1) Background: Prophylactic systemic antibiotics are acknowledged to be an important part of mitigating prosthetic joint infections. Controversy persists regarding optimal antibiotic regimes. We sought to evaluate current international antibiotics guidelines for total joint arthroplasty (TJA) of th...