Kates Stephen L., Borens Olivier. Principles of Orthopedic Infection Management

AO Foundation, 2016. — 498 p. — ISBN: 978-3-13-241075-6.When serving as chairs and faculty of various AOTrauma courses on infection over the years, we have had the opportunity to get to know each other and to share our knowledge and thoughts about the things that affect our daily practice. During one snowy afternoon in December, we realized that despite our shared concern over the impact of infection on our patients and their families, there was very little literature and indeed no orthopedic text book that covered the sorts of things we felt were important. Few books really dealt with the problem adequately, and many were written specifically for and by infection specialists. No book really combined the daily practical needs of both the surgeon and the infection specialist.
It was our great pleasure then to be able to liaise with medical colleagues and education experts to propose the development of this text at a time when infection had come to light as a critical and highly overlooked factor in orthopedic treatment. We especially wanted to ensure there was a focus on a team approach to treating infection, involving microbiologists, orthopedic surgeons, and infection specialists. Our main goal for the book was to provide a basic knowledge for all of these professionals on how to approach the problem, and equally importantly, on how to prevent it.
We are extremely pleased that we were able to involve opinion leaders from a wide range of fields and specialties to join us and contribute to the book. We were especially motivated to ensure that the book offered the reader a practical approach to infection treatment, with many real patient cases on how the authors treated their own orthopedic infection challenges.
Interest in the topic of infection is increasing dramatically, and we note the AO has greatly increased the number of courses and other educational activities covering this topic in recent years. We are extremely proud to be at the forefront of this new focus, and to be able to genuinely recommend this book to our colleagues and counterparts involved in researching, analyzing, or treating orthopedic infection.