Dr. Benjamin Levy chats with Drs. Jessica Seidelman and Johannes Plate about cutibacterium in THA and TKA. 

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Dr. Hussam Tabaja chats with Drs. Jessica Seidelman and Johannes Plate about fracture related infections.

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Drs. Allison Lastinger and Matthew Dietz chat with Drs. Jessica Seidelman and Johannes Plate about their collaborative orthopaedic-infectious disease clinic.

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Dr. Brian Klatt, past President of MSIS, chats with Drs. Jessica Seidelman and Johannes Plate about the challenges of treating patients with periprosthetic joint infections and the evolution of MSIS over the years and into the future.

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Listen in as hosts Drs. Jessica Seidelman and Johannes Plate speak with Professor Parham Sendi about systemic antibiotics for the treatment of bone and joint infections.  They discuss treatment of a patient with chronic infection and retained hardware.  FOLLOW us on twitter @jointapproach or instragram @jointapproachpodcast for more announcements and content, and reach out to us at [email protected] 

In the conclusion of this episode on interpreting cell cultures, Drs. Jessica Seidelman and Johannes Plate continue their discussion with Drs. Robin Patel and Martin Clauss focused on intra-operative diagnostics, including:

• Techniques to open the joint and take the fluid
• Importance of location matter
• Number of cultures
• Tests to request: fungal and AFB - are these for everyone?
• Cell count and intraoperative frozen sections.

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Co-hosts Drs. Jessica Seidelman and Johannes Plate chat with Drs. Robin Patel and Martin Clauss about taking and interpreting cell cultures and pre-operative diagnostics including:

• Main causes of a culture-negative PJI
• Techniques available to help diagnose a PJI when previous standard cultures have been negative 
• Importance of technique 
• Kinds of tests 
• Patient antibiotic management to optimize intraoperative yield. 

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Co-hosts Drs. Jessica Seidelman and Johannes Plate talk with Drs. Laura Certain and Rihard Trebse about the perspectives of the Orthopedic surgeon and the Infectious Disease physician and the importance of collaboration to manage patient infections.