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