International Society of Cardiovascular Infectious Diseases Guidelines for the Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention of Disseminated Mycobacterium chimaera Infection Following Cardiac Surgery with Cardiopulmonary Bypass

Publication date: Available online 9 November 2019Source: Journal of Hospital InfectionAuthor(s): Barbara Hasse, Margaret Hannan, Peter M. Keller, Florian P. Maurer, Rami Sommerstein, Dominik Mertz, Dirk Wagner, Nuria Fernández-Hidalgo, Jim Nomura, Vinicio Manfrin, Dominique Bettex, Antonio Hernandez Conte, Emanuele Durante-Mangoni, Tommy Hing-Cheung Tang, Rhonda L. Stuart, Jens Lundgren, Steve Gordon, M. Claire Jarashow, Peter W. Schreiber, Stefan NiemannSummaryMycobacterial infection-related morbidity and mortality in patients following cardiopulmonary bypass surgery is high and and there is a growing need for a consensus-based expert opinion to provide international guidance for diagnosing, preventing and treating in these patients. In this document the International Society for Cardiovascular Infectious Diseases (ISCVID) covers aspects of prevention (field of hospital epidemiology), clinical management (infectious disease specialists, cardiac surgeons, ophthalmologists, others), laboratory diagnostics (microbiologists, molecular diagnostics), device management (perfusionists, cardiac surgeons) and public health aspects.
Source: Journal of Hospital Infection - Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: research