The purpose of this study is to compare infection rates when patients, elected for primary or aseptic revision THA / TKA, have a single intravenous antibiotic dose versus one single intravenous antibiotic dose in combination with intra-articular antibiotics. This is a prospective, randomized clinical survey on selected outcome measurements on 1834 subjects who will be recruited in a period of about 2 years.
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Acute Infection rate
Timeframe: 3 months