Industry Sponsored Symposia
Thursday, 26 September
Industry Symposium A
Time: 12:45-13:45
Room: Room 5
Cutting Edge Infection Management.
Surgical & Diagnostics
Agenda
- Patient related risk factors and optimisation strategies
- Intra-operative technologies for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of infection
- Reimplantation – what is the gold standard?
Speakers
- Dr. Pablo Corona, Hospital Universitario Vall d’Hebrón Barcelona, Spain
- Dr. Daniel Pérez-Prieto, Hospital del Mar- Parc de Salut Mar Barcelona, Spain
Industry Symposium B
Time: 12:45-13:45
Room: Room 6
The use of PerOssal® in complex bone and spinal infections
Agenda
- PerOssal®: An additional weapon to fight chronic osteomyelitis
- Compassionate use of bacteriophages in bone and joint infections – First experience with PerOssal® as carrier material
- Experience using local antibiotic therapy in spondylodiscitis and postoperative spinal infections
- Case discussions – Treatment of bone and implant infections
Speakers
- Dr. Andrea Sambri
- Prof. Dr. med. Markus Rupp
- Prof. Dr. med. Michael Rauschmann
- Prof Dr. med. Dr. h.c Christian Heiss
Industry Symposium C
Time: 17:25-18:25
Room: Room 5
Better safe than sorry – ways to support infection prevention with antibiotic-loaded bone cement
Agenda
- Which patients are at risk for infection?
- Infection prevention with dual antibiotic-loaded bone cement in patients with a neck femur fracture
- Use of antibiotic-loaded bone cement in special clinical situations
Speakers
- Tristan Ferry, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Lyon, France
- Mike Reed, Wansbeck General Hospital, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom
- Volker Alt, University Hospital Regensburg, Germany
Industry Symposium D
Time: 17:25-18:25
Room: Room 6
Is there still room for improvement within the interdisciplinary infection management in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of patients with bone & joint infections?
Agenda
- Introduction by the Moderator
- State of the art dianostics for patients with bone & joint infections
- Understanding of antibiotic (bone) tissue pharmacokinetics
- Treatment concepts of systemic antibiotic therapy in bone & joint infections with a focus on implant-associated infections
- Overall discussion and closing remarks
Speakers
- Martin Clauss, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland
- Jaime Esteban, Hôpital Universitario Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Spain
- Mats Bue, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark
- Efthymia Giannitsioti, Laiko General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Friday, 27 September
Industry Symposium E
Time: 12:35-13:35
Room: Room 5
Improving outcomes in complex PJI cases
Agenda
- Aggregation of marginal gains in periprosthetic joint infections
- Optimising Intraoperative Protocols during Periprosthetic Joint Infection Surgery
Speakers
- Mr. Pedro Foguet, Consultant Orthopaedic & Trauma Surgeon, Coventry, UK
- Prof. Lee Jeys, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Birmingham, UK
- Mr. Abtin Alvand, Consultant Orthopaedic Knee Surgeon, Oxford, UK
Industry Symposium F
Time: 12:35-13:35
Room: Room 6
CERAMENT® G and CERAMENT® V in FRI and PJI
Definitions and surgical techniques
Agenda
- Welcome and Introduction
- FRI and PJI – Using the definitions
- The rational of local antibiotics in FRI and PJI
- CERAMENT® G and CERAMENT® V in FRI, surgical technique
- CERAMENT® G and CERAMENT® V in PJI, surgical technique
- Panel discussion and Q&A
- Take-home messages
Speakers
- Dr. Daniel Pérez Prieto, Orthopaedic Surgeon, Hospital del Mar/Hospital de l’Esperança, Barcelona, Spain
- Prof. Martin McNally, Honorary Consultant in Limb Reconstruction Surgery, Oxford Bone Infection Unit, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford, UK
- Dr. Matt Scarborough, Consultant, Infectious Diseases, Microbiology and General Medicine, Oxford Bone Infection Unit, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford, UK
- Mr. Jamie Ferguson, Consultant in Limb Reconstruction Surgery and Trauma, Oxford Bone Infection Unit, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford, UK
- Dr. Sebastian Meller, Senior Orthopaedic Surgeon, Head of Department for Hip Surgery and Implant Related Infections, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany