This week I spent one day at the clinic, two days at the OR, and the rest working on my research project. This week at the clinic I learned more about the requirements necessary for having replacement surgery. Things like having a BMI lower than 40 being recommended so no complications occur such as cardiovascular, lungs, blood clots, etc. I also learned how to identify implants that have osteointegrated to the native bone or when it moved (subsidence). Dr. Carli also had a patient who received a total replacement surgery from China and I got to see the differences between US implants, they are very different aesthetically. I went to the OR both Tuesday and Wednesday and got to see revision surgeries, mostly from infections. Most of the surgeries I saw were on placing antibiotic spacers of the knee, and one surgery involved a removal of the total knee implant and insertion of a new one. On Wednesday I was shadowing both total hip and knee replacement surgeries.
For the rest of the week I have been working on collecting experimental data for my research project this summer. The data this week looks great, it seems like the biofilm produced by E. coli was not affected by the mechanical techniques we are applying to remove it. Very interesting! I am currently looking at literature to see if there's some sort of explanation for this. I added some pictures of dilutions and you can see how the bacteria decreases as the dilution increases.
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