On: Filthy surgical instruments: a threat in America's operating rooms (2014)

[DoreenMichele]

Joint surgeries are some of the highest risk for infection.

Can you expand on why that is? Do we know why joint surgeries are so problematic?

[esm → DoreenMichele]

It is harder for infection fighting cells to get into the joint space compared to other tissues

[loocsinus → DoreenMichele]

lack of or reduced blood supply