DAIR to Be Selective: Keeping the Implant Doesn’t Mean Keeping Every Part

A new UK study dives deeply into the European Bone and Joint Infection Society’s debridement, antibiotics, and implant retention guidelines, better known as DAIR and, essentially, delivers a startling conclusion: patients for whom DAIR, under the guidelines, is not recommended, had a significantly higher failure rate than the DAIR recommended cohort.