Eradication by surfactant irrigation of Staphylococcus aureus from infected complex wounds

Treatment of infected orthopaedic hardware usually requires the removal of the appliance. When the device is removed and immediately replaced, persistent infection frequently complicates this exchange procedure. We modeled the exchange procedure in rats by passing a wire suture through a posterior s...

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Veröffentlicht in:Clinical orthopaedics and related research 2004-10, Vol.427 (427), p.28-36
Hauptverfasser: Huyette, David R, Simpson, W Andrew, Walsh, Rhonda, Hendricks, Kelly J, Phaup, J Glenn, Anglen, Jeffrey O, Gainor, Barry J, Christensen, Gordon D
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Zusammenfassung:Treatment of infected orthopaedic hardware usually requires the removal of the appliance. When the device is removed and immediately replaced, persistent infection frequently complicates this exchange procedure. We modeled the exchange procedure in rats by passing a wire suture through a posterior spinous process and then contaminating the wound with Staphylococcus aureus. We then investigated whether a sequence of surfactant enriched irrigation solutions (Castile soap followed by benzalkonium chloride, sequential surfactant irrigation) had a greater capacity to eradicate Staphylococcus aureus from the experimental wound than did the standard wound irrigant, normal saline. When we left the wire in place through the 2-week course of the study, sequential surfactant irrigation showed only a modest advantage over normal saline (staphylococci recovered from 39% versus 58% of wound cultures respectively). Simple removal of the wire 24 hours after implantation and bacterial contamination prevented wound infection in most animals (with the wire removed, 38% of the animals remained infected versus 85% with the wire left in place), without regard to the irrigation solution. Alternatively, when we removed the wire after 24 hours, irrigated the wound, and then placed a fresh wire back into the wound, sequential surfactant irrigation showed a significant advantage over NS (54% of the animals irrigated with sequential surfactants remained infected versus 100% of the animals irrigated with normal saline). Our findings confirm the importance of a contaminated medical device for promoting foreign body infection; our findings also show that sequential surfactant irrigation has therapeutic value in a rat model of orthopaedic device infection; this irrigation protocol should be studied further as a potential agent for the treatment of infected orthopaedic wounds.
ISSN:0009-921X
DOI:10.1097/01.blo.0000143558.57014.a9