recommendations for preventing infective endocarditis before dental and medical procedures

May 2007

The American Heart Association is changing their recommendations for preventing infective endocarditis before dental and medical procedures.

The big change is that antibiotics will be recommended for far fewer patients...and for fewer procedures.

The new thinking is that antibiotic prophylaxis...even if 100% effective...prevents at most only a very small number of infective endocarditis cases.

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