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#67 – Nixing the Nidus: Managing Retained Sources in Prosthetic Joint Infections

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Do You Think This Is the Right Thing to Be Doing?

Nico: Laura has been really like driving the follow-up work after this trial was published to see if this is actually the right thing to do. We've only been giving folks about two weeks of antibiotic therapy um i guess our rationale is that most of the surgical wound healing occurs during that period. There are a lot of sinners trying to find the balance between protecting these patients from further infection while not unnecessarily increasing their risk of drug resistant infections and we just don't know yet what that perfect balance is, Nico says.

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