Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter explains that joint replacement infections are reported at 1 in 100 but may actually be closer to 3%. Severe infections can require additional hospitalizations and major follow-up surgeries.
About 1 in 100 people.
Approximately 3%.
A national average phrased as "between 8 and 15,000 severe joint [replacement infections]" (transcript wording).
Joint replacement or a major surgery are not something that you just go and take some antibiotics.
Infection is a huge problem in.
Joint replacements.
It happens in about 1 in 100 people. And I think that's probably low. I think it's probably more like 3%. So between 1.
And 3%.
And infections are not just in a joint replacement or a major surgery are not something that you just go and take some antibiotics. Oftentimes these.
Require additional hospitalizations.
Bigger surgeries, and the national average is between 8 and 15,000 severe joint.
Replacement infections a.
Year that require treatment in Americans.
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