Key result
Review evaluates etiology, risk factors, and prevention strategies for cardiac implant-associated infections.
Why the study?
Cardiac implants are intended for long-term use and implant failure is a major setback, requiring infectious causes of failure to be adequately addressed.
This review highlights the etiology, predisposing factors, and preventive strategies for infections associated with cardiac implants.
Infectious causes of cardiac implant failure merit attention; leaves open optimal prevention strategies pending higher-level evidence.
Cardiac implantations are among the most critical, and life-saving patient management procedures. Most cardiac implantations are performed to correct abnormalities in the conduction and the rhythm of the heart. Because the implants are intended for long-term use ranging from months to years, the failure of an implant is considered a major setback both in the patients as well as surgeons' perspectives. Implant failures can have multifactorial reasons, amongst which infectious causes need to be adequately addressed. This review attempts to evaluate the nature of implants, etiology, predisposing factors, infection control, and preventive strategies for cardiac implant-associated infections.
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Kandi et al. (2020) conducted a review in Cardiac implant-associated infections. Cardiac implants was evaluated. This review evaluates the etiology, predisposing factors, infection control, and preventive strategies for cardiac implant-associated infections.
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