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Table 1 Patients’ characteristics of 98 primary total hip arthroplasties including culture results

From: No difference in bacterial contamination of hip capsule sutures and control sutures in hip arthroplasty surgery

 

All

Negative suture cultures

Positive capsule and/or control suture cultures*

N (%)

98

88

10

Age

72.4 ± 8.6

73.1 ± 8.3

67.0 ± 9.8

Sex, female, n (%)

69 (70)

66 (75)

3 (30)

BMI, kg/m2

28.0 ± 4.9

27.6 ± 4.4

30.8 ± 7.4

Fixation technique, n (%)

   

 Cemented

67 (68)

60 (68)

7 (70)

 Cementless

31 (32)

28 (32)

3 (30)

Duration of surgery, minutes

68.9 ± 16.9

68.3 ± 17.0

74.3 ± 16.2

 Cemented

75.9 ± 13.5

75.6 ± 13.5

79.0 ± 13.5

 Cementless

53.8 ± 13.5

52.8 ± 12.8

63.3 ± 19.6

Intraoperative blood loss†, ml

339.0 ± 225.3

339.1 ± 231.2

337.5 ± 170.2

  1. All values are means ± standard deviation unless stated otherwise. * Positive cultures in either or both of the capsule or control suture group; † Intraoperative blood loss was only reported in 48 cases (48%), of which 4 (8%) had positive cultures. BMI body mass index.
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Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control

ISSN: 2047-2994

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