An ISHLT consensus document for prevention and management strategies for mechanical circulatory support infection

Shimon Kusne; Martha Mooney; Lara Danziger-Isakov; Annemarie Kaan; Lars H Lund; Haifa Lyster; Georg Wieselthaler; Saima Aslam; Barbara Cagliostro; Jonathan Chen; Pamela Combs; Adam Cochrane; Jennifer Conway; Jennifer Cowger; Maria Frigerio; Rochelle Gellatly; Paolo Grossi; Finn Gustafsson; Margaret Hannan; Angela Lorts; Stanley Martin; Sean Pinney; Fernanda P Silveira; Stephan Schubert; Stephan Schueler; Martin Strueber; Nir Uriel; Neil Wrightson; Rachel Zabner; Shirish Huprikar

doi:10.1016/j.healun.2017.06.007

An ISHLT consensus document for prevention and management strategies for mechanical circulatory support infection

J Heart Lung Transplant. 2017 Oct;36(10):1137-1153. doi: 10.1016/j.healun.2017.06.007. Epub 2017 Jun 23.

Authors

Shimon Kusne¹, Martha Mooney², Lara Danziger-Isakov³, Annemarie Kaan⁴, Lars H Lund⁵, Haifa Lyster⁶, Georg Wieselthaler⁷, Saima Aslam⁸, Barbara Cagliostro⁹, Jonathan Chen¹⁰, Pamela Combs¹¹, Adam Cochrane¹², Jennifer Conway¹³, Jennifer Cowger¹⁴, Maria Frigerio¹⁵, Rochelle Gellatly¹⁶, Paolo Grossi¹⁷, Finn Gustafsson¹⁸, Margaret Hannan¹⁹, Angela Lorts²⁰, Stanley Martin²¹, Sean Pinney²², Fernanda P Silveira²³, Stephan Schubert²⁴, Stephan Schueler²⁵, Martin Strueber²⁶, Nir Uriel²⁷, Neil Wrightson²⁸, Rachel Zabner²⁹, Shirish Huprikar³⁰

Affiliations

¹ The Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Mayo Clinic in Arizona, Phoenix, Arizona. Electronic address: kusne.shimon@mayo.edu.
² Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Istern Virginia Medical School/Sentara Norfolk Transplant Center, Norfolk, Virginia.
³ Department of Infectious Diseases, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
⁴ Department of Nursing, St Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
⁵ Department of Cardiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁶ Department of Pharmacy, Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, Middlesex, UK.
⁷ Division of Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, California.
⁸ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California.
⁹ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, New York Presbyterian Columbia, New York, New York.
¹⁰ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, Washington.
¹¹ Department of Research, Advocate Christ Medical Center, Oak Lawn, Illinois.
¹² Department of Pharmacy, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, Virginia.
¹³ Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Stollery Children's Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
¹⁴ Department of Cardiology, Henry Ford Medical Center, Detroit, Michigan.
¹⁵ Department of Cardiology, A.O. Niguarda Ca ` Granda, Milan, Italy.
¹⁶ Department of Pharmacy, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
¹⁷ Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Insubria - ASST Sette Laghi, Varese, Italy.
¹⁸ Department of Cardiology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.
¹⁹ Department of Infectious Diseases, Mater Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
²⁰ Department of Cardiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio.
²¹ Geisinger Health System, Danville, Pennsylvania.
²² Department of Cardiology, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York.
²³ Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
²⁴ Deutsces Herzzentrum Berlin, Department of Congenital Heart Disease/Pediatric Cardiology, Augustenburger Platz 1, Berlin, Germany.
²⁵ Department of Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospital Freeman, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK.
²⁶ Department of Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark, New Jersey.
²⁷ Department of Cardiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
²⁸ Department of Nursing, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK.
²⁹ Department of Infectious Diseases, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California.
³⁰ Division of Infectious Diseases, The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York.

PMID: 28781010
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2017.06.007

No abstract available

Publication types

Editorial
Review

MeSH terms

Consensus*
Global Health
Heart-Assist Devices / adverse effects*
Heart-Lung Transplantation / adverse effects*
Humans
Incidence
Primary Graft Dysfunction / epidemiology
Primary Graft Dysfunction / prevention & control*
Prosthesis-Related Infections / epidemiology
Prosthesis-Related Infections / prevention & control*
Risk Factors
Societies, Medical*