Absorbable antibiotic envelope can significantly cut cardiac device infections

Sunday, March 17, 2019 - 14:50 in Health & Medicine

A research team has found that using an absorbable, antibiotic-eluting envelope when implanting cardiac devices like pacemakers and defibrillators can cut the rate of major infections by 40 percent.

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