How to prevent, recognize, and manage complications of lead extraction. Part I: Avoiding lead extraction-Infectious issues

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1083-1087

  Henrikson, Charles A ^a   Brinker, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lead extraction

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CEFAZOLIN; CLINDAMYCIN; CLOPIDOGREL; FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; HEPARIN; NEOMYCIN; POLYMYXIN B; SODIUM CHLORIDE; VANCOMYCIN; WARFARIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BLOOD CULTURE; DEVICE INFECTION; DEVICE REMOVAL; HEMATOMA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE GENERATOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; THROMBOSIS;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; DEVICE REMOVAL; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; HUMANS; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 45849108005     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2007.10.018     Document Type: Article

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