Dr. Douglas R Osmon M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
200 1st St SW Rochester MN, 55905About
Dr. Douglas Osmon is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Rochester, MN. Dr. Osmon specializes in infections that are difficult to diagnose or unresponsive to treatments, such as HIV or airborne infections from a foreign country. Infectious disease specialists usually work with conditions that are not treatable by a primary physician but it is important to keep contact with the primary physician in order to receive information about the patients history and for deciding which diagnostic tests are appropriate.
Education and Training
Mayo Med Sch, Rochester Mn 1986
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Prevention of deep wound infection after total hip arthroplasty: the role of prophylactic antibiotics and clean air technology.
- Instructive case report. A 26-year-old Indian woman with seizures and multiple intracranial mass lesions.
- Staphylococcus aureus prosthetic joint infection treated with prosthesis removal and delayed reimplantation arthroplasty.
- The use of prophylactic antimicrobial agents during and after hip arthroplasty.
- Antimicrobial prophylaxis in adults.
- Assessment of patient selection criteria for treatment of the infected hip arthroplasty.
- Vertebral osteomyelitis and prosthetic joint infection due to Staphylococcus simulans.
- Antimicrobial resistance: guidelines for the practicing orthopaedic surgeon.
- Evaluation of a staging system for infected hip arthroplasty.
- Editorial comment.
- Local antibiotic delivery systems: where are we and where are we going?
- Epidemiology, treatment, and prevention of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections.
- Prosthetic joint infection diagnosed postoperatively by intraoperative culture.
- Antibiotic prophylaxis in orthopedic prosthetic surgery.
- Outcome of prosthetic joint infections treated with debridement and retention of components.
Professional Memberships
- Member Minnesota Medical Association/Zumbro Valley
Fellowships
- Fellow - Infectious Diseases: Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
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