Antibiotic prophylaxis cards for bacterial endocarditis

Infective endocarditis is a largely preventable cause of morbidity and mortality in individuals with congenital heart disease. Patient and physician awareness is crucial, and in this regard, antibiotic prophylaxis cards are very helpful. I present an antibiotic prophylaxis card which is based on rec...

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Autor principal: Grech, V
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2000
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3232479/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22368576
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description Infective endocarditis is a largely preventable cause of morbidity and mortality in individuals with congenital heart disease. Patient and physician awareness is crucial, and in this regard, antibiotic prophylaxis cards are very helpful. I present an antibiotic prophylaxis card which is based on recent recommendations by the American Heart Association. This card is currently in use in Malta for both paediatric and adult patients.
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spelling pubmed-32324792012-02-22 Antibiotic prophylaxis cards for bacterial endocarditis Grech, V Images Paediatr Cardiol Case Report Infective endocarditis is a largely preventable cause of morbidity and mortality in individuals with congenital heart disease. Patient and physician awareness is crucial, and in this regard, antibiotic prophylaxis cards are very helpful. I present an antibiotic prophylaxis card which is based on recent recommendations by the American Heart Association. This card is currently in use in Malta for both paediatric and adult patients. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2000 /pmc/articles/PMC3232479/ /pubmed/22368576 Text en Copyright: © Images in Paediatric Cardiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Antibiotic prophylaxis cards for bacterial endocarditis
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title_full Antibiotic prophylaxis cards for bacterial endocarditis
title_fullStr Antibiotic prophylaxis cards for bacterial endocarditis
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title_short Antibiotic prophylaxis cards for bacterial endocarditis
title_sort antibiotic prophylaxis cards for bacterial endocarditis
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