Call for paper
To propose a paper, send an e-mail to aseptic@aseptic-surgery-forum.com with the title, a ten-line summary and key points of the paper, name photo and short CV of the speaker.
Submission language: French or English
As the goal is to have an international audience, there will be a simultaneous French-English and English-French translation.
The theme of the conference contribution of technological innovations, diagnosis, good practices and proper patient management. Legal and economic aspects of surgical infections; means and technologies to limit the number of infections; preparation for surgery, prevention treatment.
Themes for 2012 programme, taking the environment and sustainable development into account:
- Innovation for prevention, diagnostics and treatment for surgical infection
- From contamination to infection: prevention or precaution principle? Risk management
- Infection risk factors from the patient: tabac, malnutrition, immunity, comorbidity, bacterial carrying etc
- Infection risk the environment : Hospital Hygien, air-water-surface quality; operating room design, sterilization, traceability, cleaning and disinfection; hand hygiene, skin preparation and health worker equipement
- Biofilms and implants infection
- Surgical instruments, ancillary equipment and medecal devices : innovations in materials, surface treatements and coating, cleaning, desinfection and sterilization, packaging, traceability, etc
- Prophylactic antiobiotic and antibiotic treatment: mode of action, bacterial resistance, new molecules
- The cost of prevention and infection
- Amputation in terme of spetic : indications, equipment and perspectives
- Infections in other surgical specialities : the present situation
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Two-Day Conference
For the practitioners and experts in the various medical and technological fields who assist daily in the fight against infection.
The Exhibition
That runs in parallel with the conference is an opportunity for attendees to exchange information with fittings and equipment, medicine, products, services and innovative technology suppliers that help to prevent and treat infections.
L'Espace Champerret
ASF will be held at Espace Champerret - 6 rue Jean Oestreicher - 75017 Paris.