NICE Pressed to Revise Dental Antibiotic Rules for Heart Patients miragenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from miragenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Researchers recommend update of dental antibiotic guidelines to protect high-risk heart patients medicalxpress.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from medicalxpress.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Dental procedures, specifically extractions and oral surgery, were significantly linked to endocarditis in high-risk individuals, but antibiotic prophylaxis reduced its incidence.
Dental procedures, specifically extractions and oral surgery, were significantly linked to endocarditis in high-risk individuals, but antibiotic prophylaxis reduced its incidence.
Clinicians may want to stop prescribing antibiotics to prosthetic joint patients prior to invasive dental care because they don't cut the risk of infection.
"You have to have this [antibiotic prophylaxis] conversation when you see your patient with a prosthetic valve or who's had endocarditis every time they come in."
People who are at high risk of developing a life-threatening heart infection should be given antibiotics before undergoing invasive dental procedures, according to new research.