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Jun 11

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111. An Exasperating Expansion on Endoca...

Infectious Disease: Insights of Two Specialists

About this episode

In this episode, Callum and Jame discuss the latest evidence base for endocarditis assessment & management, focusing on the ESC 2023 guidance.

Epidemiology!
Prophylaxis!
How to take a blood culture!
A long and complicated comparison of the Duke-ISCVID and Duke-ESC criteria that doesn’t really matter because they’re both as good as each other!

AND MORE

…in part 2 because this is a 2-parter sorry

SEE YOU NEXT TIME!

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