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My Patient with Infective Endocarditis (IE) Has Negative Blood Cultures
 - Did they receive antibiotics prior
My Patient with Infective ... Endocarditis (IE ... therapy - Number one cause ... #Diagnosis #Management ... #Algorithm
Blood Culture Collection Algorithm - Adult Patients with Suspected Systemic Infection 

Pawlowicz et al evidenced based
cultures based on the Shapiro ... Implementation-of-an-evidence-based-algorithm-reduces-blood-culture-overuse-in-an-adult-emergency-department.php ... , endocarditis, ... #Management #BloodCultures ... EmergencyDepartment #Protocol #Shapiro
Endocarditis Summary

Who?
Infectious:
• Pre-existing valvular disease
• Prosthetic valve
• Congenital heart disease
• IV substance use
• IV catheter
• Recent
cultures are positive in ... • Coagulase-negative ... Septic Emboli Cause ... Substance use: R > L Tricuspid ... #diagnosis #management
The algorithm below shows how pre-test probability could be combined with various criteria to determine which
probability) and negative ... (~0.5%) and a negative ... HSV PCR would cause ... -An algorithm incorporating ... is proposed: #Management