? 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