Use of thioglycolate broth as a pre-analytic transport medium in the diagnosis of prosthetic joint infection.

Objectives: This study aimed to investigate whether adding tissue samples directly into thioglycolate (TG) broth yielded a greater number of anaerobic organisms than freshly sampled tissue in suspected hip and knee prosthetic joint infections (PJIs).

Patients And Methods: Between January 2017 and December 2020, a total of 90 patients (46 males, 44 females; median age: 71.7 years; range, 50.

Adherence to antimicrobial prophylaxis guidelines in cardiac implantable electronic device procedures in two Australian teaching hospitals.

Objective This study investigated antibiotic prophylaxis (AP) guideline adherence and the cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) infection rate in two major Australian public teaching hospitals. Methods In a retrospective observational study, the medical records of patients who underwent CIED procedures between January and December 2017 were reviewed (Hospital A, n = 400 procedures; Hospital B, n = 198 procedures). Adherence to AP guidelines was assessed regarding drug, dose, timing, route and frequency.

Adaptation of a hospital electronic referral system for antimicrobial stewardship prospective audit and feedback rounds.

Objective: To evaluate the impact of the adaptation of an existing electronic referral application for use in antimicrobial stewardship prospective audit and feedback rounds (antimicrobial rounds).

Design: Retrospective, single-centre observational study between March 2015 and February 2016.

Setting: A new quaternary referral centre.

Optimizing adherence to advice from antimicrobial stewardship audit and feedback rounds.

We examined adherence to antimicrobial stewardship prospective audit and feedback rounds in a rehabilitation service compared with the remainder of the acute hospital, and explored the reasons for this. Between October 2014 and December 2015, we retrospectively assessed the rate of non-adherence to advice from antimicrobial stewardship prospective audit and feedback rounds between the rehabilitation service and the acute hospital, along with the source of the patient referral. Compared with the rehabilitation service, acute hospital medical staff were almost twice as likely to not adhere to advice provided on antimicrobial stewardship prospective audit and feedback rounds (13.

Epidemiological features and control of an outbreak of scarlet fever in a Perth primary school.

Scarlet fever was associated with feared outbreaks and mortality in the 19th Century. It occurs sporadically in modern society and infection is readily treated with antibiotics. We report on a scarlet fever outbreak in children attending a primary school in Perth, Western Australia, in late 2003.

Infected endoluminal stent-graft: implications for endotension, late endoleaks, and prophylactic antibiotics.

Purpose: To retrospectively review a case of stent-graft infection that presented as continued aneurysm expansion after endoluminal repair.

Case Report: A 75-year-old man with an asymptomatic 6.1-cm abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) was treated with a Talent stent-graft, which was complicated by postimplantation syndrome.