Antibiotic prophylaxis based on individual infective risk stratification in cardiac implantable electronic device: the PRACTICE study.
Michele MalagùFrancesco VitaliAlessandro BriedaPaolo CimagliaMartina De RaffeleEnea TazzariCristina MusolinoCristina BallaMatteo SerenelliRosario CultreraClaudio RapezziMatteo BertiniPublished in: Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology (2021)
In a large cohort of patients undergoing CIED procedure, an antibiotic prophylaxis based on individual stratification of infective risk resulted in similar rate of infection between groups at high and low risk of CIED-related infection.