Safety of Intraoperative Cell Salvage in Two-Stage Revision of Septic Hip Arthroplasties.

(1) Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate the safety of intraoperative cell salvage (ICS) during reimplantation in the two-stage revision of septic hip arthroplasties. (2) Methods: As part of an internal quality control study, blood cultures were taken from the processed ICS blood during reimplantation and examined for possible bacterial load (study group). Due to a high rate of bacterial detection with uncertain clinical significance, consecutive ICS samples were also examined from patients undergoing aseptic revision hip arthroplasty (control group). Microbiological samples, patient and surgical characteristics and the follow-up data were analyzed retrospectively. (3) Results: 9 out of 12 (75%) patients in the study group and 5 out of 8 (63%) patients in the control group had positive ICS blood cultures. There was no significant difference between the groups (