Kris E Radcliff, Alexander D Neusner, Paul W Millhouse, James D Harrop, Christopher K Kepler, Mohammad R Rasouli, Todd J Albert, Alexander R Vaccaro
BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Surgical site infection (SSI) after spinal surgery can result in several serious secondary complications, such as pseudoarthrosis, neurological injury, paralysis, sepsis, and death. There is an increasing body of literature on risk factors, diagnosis, and specific intraoperative interventions, including attention to sterility of instrumentation, application of minimally invasive fusion techniques, intraoperative irrigation, and application of topical antibiotics, that hold the most promise for reduction of SSI...
February 1, 2015: Spine Journal: Official Journal of the North American Spine Society