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My Patient with Infective Endocarditis (IE) Has Negative Blood Cultures
 - Did they receive antibiotics prior
with Infective Endocarditis ... Did they receive antibiotics ... therapy - Number one cause ... BloodCultures #Diagnosis #Management ... #Algorithm
Endocarditis Summary

Who?
Infectious:
• Pre-existing valvular disease
• Prosthetic valve
• Congenital heart disease
• IV substance use
• IV catheter
• Recent
Septic Emboli Cause ... • IV Antibiotics ... Treat underlying cause ... Regurgitation • Colon ... #diagnosis #management
For my UME micro course, I made a figure that captures this terminology and lets learners
will represent antibiotics ... important drug classes ... clinical use, I’ve color ... coded the abx bars ... #pharmacology #management