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Jeroen G.V. Neyt

Univ Hospitals Ghent, Belgium

Title: Guideline for management of septic arthritis in native joints (SANJO)

Abstract

The European Bone and Joint Infection Society ( EBJIS) initiated a large interdisciplinary collaborative project to create a concise evidence-based clinical guideline for the management of SANJO. A Steering Committee identified 25 clinical dilemmas related to SANJO and grouped these into nine categories. For each group, a work group of international experts was recruited amongst members of the EBJIS (17 countries – 54 experts). Recommendations on SANJO after ACL reconstruction were created in co-operation with members of the European Society for Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy (ESSKA). The work groups followed a predefined process of systematic literature search, weighing in the strength of recommendations and quality of evidence according to the GRADE system. A detailed description of the methods, background , and evidence reporting for each recommendation with references was produced and collated in nine associated work group reports available in public domain. Guidelines cannot always account for individual variation among patients. They are not intended to replace physician judgment with respect to particular patients or special clinical situations. This work could serve as a clinical practice platform and be further evaluated by and validated on the basis of future research projects on SANJO.

Biography

Jeroen Neyt is an Attending Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon and Staff Member at a Level I Trauma Center. He has completed his MD from University of Leuven, embarked on several Clinical Fellowships in Chicago and Iowa, USA. He has been Consultant T & O in London, UK for 16 years and gained his Fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons. After leading the Bone Infection Unit for 7 years at University Hospitals Leuven , he became Head of The Bone and Soft Tissue Infection Unit in 2020 at the University of Gent. He is the Country Delegate for Belgium for the EBJIS since 2014. Jeroen Neyt is about to complete his PhD on the Diagnosis of Periprosthetic Joint Infections (PJI). He published and lectured widely. He has been serving as peer reviewer for several reputed journals.