S3-Leitlinie (Langversion) „Management der Mediastinitis nach herzchirurgischem Eingriff“^[*]

Federführende Fachgesellschaft

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Thorax-, Herz- und Gefäßchirurgie (DGTHG)

Beteiligte Fachgesellschaften

• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Thorax-, Herz- und Gefäßchirurgie

• Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Herz- und Thorakale Gefäßchirurgie

• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Hygiene und Mikrobiologie

• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Infektiologie

• Deutsche Gesellschaft der Plastischen, Rekonstruktiven und Ästhetischen Chirurgen

• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Anästhesiologie und Intensivmedizin

• Deutsche Röntgengesellschaft

• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kardiologie– Herz- und Kreislaufforschung

• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Prävention und Rehabilitation von Herz- Kreislauferkrankungen

• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Wundheilung und Wundbehandlung

• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Unfallchirurgie

• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Krankenhaushygiene

• Deutscher Verband für Physiotherapie

^* Version 1, July 2019, AWMF-Register-Nummer: 011-022.

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