Course for the Operating Team - Theatre Staff, Surgeons and Pharmatics "Managing Risk Patients as a Team - Infection Prevention"

An interdisciplinary faculty leads through this course, focusing on the exchange of perspectives and opinions of different team members and their respective roles in preventing periprosthetic infections.

Sessions

• Team effort for the risk patient – perspectives from OR staff / surgeon / pharmacist
• Moderated panel “The role of interdisciplinary collaboration in preventing and treating periprosthetic joint infection”
• From germ to infection – why are implants susceptible to infections?
• Hygiene in the OR and infection prophylaxis – perspectives of the head of OR and the surgeon
• Therapeutic options
• Systemic and local antibiotics

Workshop

• Team effort with bone cement and PMMA spacers