Preventing CIED Infections with Antibacterial Envelopes

Infection Prevention Spotlight

English - November 23, 2019 02:36 - 15 minutes - 10.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
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Dr. Saba is Professor of Medicine and the Chairman of Cardiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and in this podcast he helps explain the use of antibacterial envelopes to prevent Cardiac Implantable Electronic Device (CIED) infections and helps us evaluate their effectiveness by breaking down one recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine (March 2019) and another in the Journal of Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology (July 2019).