TY - JOUR ID - 16107 TI - Prevention of Periprosthetic Joint Infection in Total Knee Arthroplasty: Main Studies Reported Between November 2017 and January 2020 JO - The Archives of Bone and Joint Surgery JA - ABJS LA - en SN - 2345-4644 AU - RODRIGUEZ-MERCHAN, E. Carlos AU - Liddle, Alexander D. AD - Department of Orthopedic Surgery, La Paz University Hospital-IdiPaz, Madrid, Spain AD - MSK Lab, Imperial College London, UK Y1 - 2020 PY - 2020 VL - 8 IS - 4 SP - 465 EP - 469 KW - Total knee arthroplasty KW - Periprosthetic joint infection KW - Prevention DO - 10.22038/abjs.2020.48489.2403 N2 - EDITORIAL Table 1 summarizes recommendations based on the presented papers. To prevent infection, it is critical to identify high-risk patients and control those risks prior to surgery. Action must be taken at every step of the surgical process, from preoperative to postoperative protocols, including intraoperative measures. In this Editorial some recent issues that surgeons should explore to try to prevent infection after TKA have been reviewed. Our goal must be to lower the current rate of infection following TKA. UR - https://abjs.mums.ac.ir/article_16107.html L1 - https://abjs.mums.ac.ir/article_16107_93164814ecc020c32f826829983e7571.pdf ER -