Local Antibiotics in Arthroplasty : Status Quo from an Interdisciplinary Point of View - Proceedings Intl. Symposium April 2006

Successes, limits,and further developments in PMMA bone cement as a
local carrier of active substances as well as aspects of the
prophylactic and therapeutic treatment of infections in endosurgery
were the main topics of the meeting:

- AB as prophylaxis in endoprosthetics
- AB as therapy for early and late infections
- Revision: one-step or wo-step treatment
- PMMA bone cement as carrier of active substances
- Spacers: PMMA as a drug delivery system
- PMMA-gentamycin beads in the local therapy for infections
- AB additives, mode of action of AB; interaction of AB with PMMA
- PMMA-free active substance systems, new carrier materials
- AB layers on implants

Target groups:
Physicians, especially surgeons (accident surgery), orthopedic
surgeons, microbiologists, infectiologists, and materials scientists