Loud and silent epidemics in the third millennium: tuning-up the volume
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Loud and silent epidemics in the third millennium: tuning-up the volume Carlo Luca Romanò 1,2 & Lorenzo Drago 3 & Hernán del Sel 4 & Ashok Johari 5 & Guenter Lob 6 & Andreas F. Mavrogenis 7 & Thami Benzakour 8 & World Association against Infection in Orthopedics and Trauma (WAIOT) Study Group On Bone And Joint Infection Definitions Received: 24 April 2020 / Accepted: 6 May 2020 # SICOT aisbl 2020
Abstract The media play a key role in promoting public health and influencing debate regarding health issues; however, some topics seem to generate a stronger response in the public, and this may be related to how the media construct and deliver their messages. Mass media coverage of COVID-19 epidemic has been exceptional with more than 180,000 articles published each day in 70 languages from March 8 to April 8, 2020. One may well wonder if this massive media attention ever happened in the past and if it has been finally proven to be beneficial or even just appropriate. Surgical site and implant-related infections represent a substantial part of health care-associated infections; with an estimated overall incidence of 6% post-surgical infection, approximately 18 million new surgical site infections are expected each year globally, with 5 to 10% mortality rate and an astounding economic and social cost. In the current mediatic era, orthopaedic surgeons need to refocus some of their time and energies from surgery to communication and constructive research. Only raising mediatic awareness on surgical site and implant-related infections may tune up the volume of silent epidemics to a level that can become audible by governing institutions. Keywords COVID-19 . Surgical site infections . Periprosthetic joint infections . Orthopaedics . Tuberculosis . Mass-media . Mortality
Introduction The world awakened in the last months to a unique wake-up call from the mass media. In the third millennium, in our
* Thami Benzakour [email protected]
advanced technological epoch, the striking hygienic and medical cutting-edge progress notwithstanding, microorganisms still dare to threaten human lives … But is this really such a big news?
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Studio Medico Cecca-Romanò, Corso Venezia, 20121 Milan, Italy
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Romano Institute, Rruga Ibrahim Rugova 1, 00100 Tirana, Albania
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Clinical Microbiology, University of Milan, 20100 Milan, Italy
Lorenzo Drago [email protected]
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Department of Orthopaedics, British Hospital Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Hernán del Sel [email protected]
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Department of Paediatric Orthopaedics and Spine Surgery, Children’s Orthopedic Centre, Mumbai 400016, India
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Section Injury Prevention, DGOU, 10117 Berlin, Germany
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First Department of Orthopaedics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Athens, Greece
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Zerktouni Orthopaedic Clinic, 158, Boulevard Anfa, 20050 Casablanca, Morocco
Carlo Luca Romanò [email protected]
Ashok Johari [email protected] Guenter Lob [email protected] Andreas F. Mavrogenis [email protected]
COVID-19 [4]
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