Evaluation of Infection Risk for MR Guided DBS Implantations in a Radiology Suite
Alastair Martin1, Paul Larson2, Nadja Levesque2, Jill Ostrem3, and Philip Starr2
1Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, United States, 2Neurological Surgery, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, United States, 3Neurology, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, United States
Hardware
infection incidence for DBS implantations performed in a diagnostic MR suite is
reported. A total of 164 DBS procedures
were performed in movement disorder patients resulting in six (3.7%) hardware
related infections. Two infections occurred
within the first 10 cases and led to a change in sterile practice. Over the last 154 cases four (2.6%)
infections have been reported and all were associated with implantation of the
IPG controller, which is done in a separate surgical procedure 1-3 weeks after
DBS implantation. Infection risk when
implanting DBS electrodes in a diagnostic MR suite is comparable to conventional
OR procedures.
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