Core Curricula: Cenacolo Room Sunday 18 morning (08.30h-10.30h)

Core Curricula

? GO BACK TO SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2015

08.30-10.30

Core Curriculum

Lead extraction and device infection

Program Chairmen: Maria G. Bongiorni – Charles Kennergren

CIED INFECTION

Chairmen:  W. Jung / Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany – E. Soldati / Pisa, Italy

Preventing CIED infection (state of the art implantation techniques, local and systemic
antibiotic prophylaxis, special precautions in high risk patients)
E. Soldati/ Pisa, Italy

Treatment of local and systemic CIED infection (duration of antibiotic treatment, role of
stand-alone antibiotic treatment, timing of extraction and reimplantation, treatment
of PM dependent patients during and after extraction)
J. Clancy/ New Haven, USA

Extraction and debridement techniques for infected CIED systems
R.G. Carrillo / Miami, USA

Treatment results (device infection incidence, results of stand-alone antibiotic treatment
and lead extraction/antibiotic treatment, including complication rates)
J. Kautzner/ Prague, Czech Republic