Tobramycin plus vancomycin may not reduce infection in periarticular tibial fractures

Intrawound tobramycin powder plus vancomycin powder did not reduce deep surgical site infections in patients with periarticular tibial fractures at high risk for infection compared with vancomycin powder alone, according to results.“Biology is complicated. The logic of this trial and the reason so many clinicians are using tobramycin seems sound, but in practicality it did not work. In