Problem
- Infection following arthroplasty can be difficult to diagnose and treat
- Infection occurs in 1-2% of primary total knee arthroplasty and 3-5% of revisions
- Management of infected arthroplasty’s are complex, expensive and often require additional surgical intervention with prolonged hospital admission
- Septic arthritis of native joints is on the rise as population ages
- Recent studies show that microbiology culture only identifies 50% of symptomatic infections (False negative)
- Biomarker assays that look at proteins associated with infection cannot identify the causative agent of infection
Solution
- Compass Laboratory Services offers state of the art molecular diagnostic methods for identification of clinically relevant pathogens
- Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) offers clinicians the highest degree of sensitivity that is not affected by inhibitors found in the synovial fluid
- Faster turn around time as compared to traditional microbiology culture. Results
