Recorded webinar: "Periprosthetic joint infections in pandemic times. Focus on risk patients and prevention"

Live Webinar - Submitted for 6 CME credits

6 October 2020 / 20:15 - 22:00 CET

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2020-10-06 20:15:00

We present our recorded webinar “Periprosthetic joint infections in pandemic times. Focus on risk patients and prevention”. We have put together an interdisciplinary team of four of the most experienced experts in the field of prevention and treatment of Periprosthetic Joint Infection (PJI) to discuss the best strategies for the current situation.

Multidisciplinary, patient oriented concepts and PJI prevention matter more than ever. Evidence and experiences especially with dual antibiotic-loaded bone cement has been the focus of the discussion.

Agenda

  • Part 1: How does COVID-19 pandemic change arthroplasty?
  • Part 2: Risk adapted antibiotic prophylaxis concepts with dual ALBC

Experts

PROF. DR. MED. OLIVIER BORENS, MD

Head of the Unit of Septic Surgery and Head of the Orthopaedic-Trauma Unit of the Department for the Musculoskeletal System

University Hospital (CHUV) Lausanne, Switzerland

PROF. DR. MED. THORSTEN GEHRKE

Medical Director and Senior Staff Surgeon, Orthopaedics/Surgery

HELIOS ENDO-Klinik Hamburg, Germany

PROFESSOR MIKE REED

Clinical Director, Trauma & Orthopaedics

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust And University of York, UK

PROF. DR. MED. ANDREJ TRAMPUZ

Head of the interdisciplinary Center for Septic Surgery

Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany