Updates on Evidence-Based Practices to Reduce Preoperative and Intraoperative Contamination of Implants in Spine Surgery: A Narrative Review

Updates on Evidence-Based Practices to Reduce Preoperative and Intraoperative Contamination of Implants in Spine Surgery: A Narrative Review

The current communication seeks to provide an updated narrative review on latest methods of reducing implant contaminations used during spine surgery. Recent literature review has shown that both preoperative reprocessing and intraoperative handling of implants seem to contaminate implants. In brief...

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Main Authors: Aakash Agarwal, Boren Lin, Hossein Elgafy, Vijay Goel, Chris Karas, Christian Schultz, Neel Anand, Steve Garfin, Jeffrey Wang, Anand Agarwal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Japanese Society for Spine Surgery and Related Research 2020-04-01
Series:Spine Surgery and Related Research
Subjects:
surgical site infection
contamination
bioburden
orthopedic implants
asepsis
pedicle screws
biofilm
reprocessing
intraoperative handling
implant prophylaxis
occult infection
Online Access:https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ssrr/4/2/4_2019-0038/_pdf/-char/en

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