Open AccessBlood Cultures for Evaluation of Early Postoperative Fever after Femoral Neck Fracture Surgery
Author(s) -
Brahman Sivakumar,
Praveen Vijaysegaran,
Michael Ottley,
Ross Crawford,
Christopher Coulter
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of orthopaedic surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.457
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 2309-4990
pISSN - 1022-5536
DOI - 10.1177/230949901202000314
Subject(s) - medicine , blood culture , surgery , femoral neck , sepsis , internal fixation , postoperative fever , antibiotics , percutaneous , osteoporosis , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
To evaluate the utility of blood cultures in the assessment of early postoperative fever in hip fracture patients with no other indicators of sepsis.
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