@article{08440bd12a354d08955b092b8882873a,
title = "Current Management of Cardiac Implantable Electronic Device Infections by Infectious Disease Specialists",
abstract = "Management guidelines for cardiac implantable electronic device infections exist, but practice patterns of infectious disease (ID) specialists are not well known. We found that while many ID specialist practices mirror existing guidelines, a combination of complete device removal and prolonged antimicrobial therapy is favored when Staphylococcus aureus is involved.",
keywords = "Cardiac implantable electronic device, Device-related infection, Infectious disease specialists",
author = "Liang, {Stephen Y.} and Beekmann, {Susan E.} and Polgreen, {Philip M.} and Warren, {David K.}",
note = "Funding Information: Financial support. This work was supported, in part, by a KM1 Comparative Effectiveness Research Career Development Award (grant KM1CA156708-01), the Clinical and Translational Science Award program (grant UL1RR024992) of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, and the Barnes-Jewish Patient Safety & Quality Career Development program, which is funded by the Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital, to S. Y. L. This work was also supported by a grant or cooperative agreement (FOA CK11-1102) funded by the CDC. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 The Author.",
year = "2016",
month = oct,
day = "15",
doi = "10.1093/cid/ciw431",
language = "English",
volume = "63",
pages = "1072--1075",
journal = "Clinical Infectious Diseases",
issn = "1058-4838",
number = "8",
}