International Society of Cardiovascular Infectious Diseases Guidelines for the Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention of Disseminated Mycobacterium chimaera Infection Following Cardiac Surgery with Cardiopulmonary Bypass

• Published in: The Journal of hospital infection Vol. 104; no. 2; pp. 214 - 235
• Main Authors: Hasse, B., Hannan, M.M., Keller, P.M., Maurer, F.P., Sommerstein, R., Mertz, D., Wagner, D., Fernández-Hidalgo, N., Nomura, J., Manfrin, V., Bettex, D., Hernandez Conte, A., Durante-Mangoni, E., Tang, T.H.-C., Stuart, R.L., Lundgren, J., Gordon, S., Jarashow, M.C., Schreiber, P.W., Niemann, S., Kohl, T.A., Daley, C.L., Stewardson, A.J., Whitener, C.J., Perkins, K., Plachouras, D., Lamagni, T., Chand, M., Freiberger, T., Zweifel, S., Sander, P., Schulthess, B., Scriven, J.E., Sax, H., van Ingen, J., Mestres, C.A., Diekema, D., Brown-Elliott, B.A., Wallace, R.J., Baddour, L.M., Miro, J.M., Hoen, B., Athan, E., Bayer, A., Barsic, B., Corey, G.R., Chu, V.H., Durack, D.T., Fortes, C.Q., Fowler, V., Krachmer, A.W., Durante-Magnoni, E., Wilson, W.R., Scriven, J., Stewart, R., Herwaldt, L.A., Schreiber, P., Stewardson, A., Widmer, A., Brown Elliot, B.A., Daley, C., Keller, P., Maurer, F., Falk, V., Halbe, M., Perkins, K.M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 01.02.2020
• Subjects: Anti-Bacterial Agents - therapeutic use; Cardiac Surgical Procedures - adverse effects; Cardiac Surgical Procedures - methods; Cardiology; Cardiopulmonary Bypass; Communicable Diseases; Cross Infection - diagnosis; Cross Infection - drug therapy; Cross Infection - microbiology; Cross Infection - prevention & control; Disseminated; Equipment Contamination; Guidelines; Heater-cooler device; Humans; Infection; ISCVID; Mycobacterial; Mycobacterium - isolation & purification; Mycobacterium chimaera; Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous - diagnosis; Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous - drug therapy; Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous - prevention & control; Outbreaks; Risk Factors; Societies, Medical; United Kingdom; United Kingdom; Cardiopulmonary bypass; Infection; Mycobacterial; Outbreaks; Heater-cooler device; Disseminated; ISCVID; Mycobacterium chimaera; Guidelines
• ISSN: 0195-6701; 1532-2939
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2019.10.009

Mycobacterial infection-related morbidity and mortality in patients following cardiopulmonary bypass surgery is high and there is a growing need for a consensus-based expert opinion to provide international guidance for diagnosing, preventing and treating in these patients. In this document the International Society for Cardiovascular Infectious Diseases (ISCVID) covers aspects of prevention (field of hospital epidemiology), clinical management (infectious disease specialists, cardiac surgeons, ophthalmologists, others), laboratory diagnostics (microbiologists, molecular diagnostics), device management (perfusionists, cardiac surgeons) and public health aspects.