Pocket ICU Management
Endocarditis
First Things First
- Is the patient in shock?
- If so, support ABCs
- Draw blood cultures
- Start antibiotic therapy
- Obtain echocardiogram
- Cardiothoracic surgery consultation
- Infectious disease consultation
- Prophylaxis to prevent BE
- See www.americanheart.org for most current treatment guidelines
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Last updated: April 26, 2010
Citation
"Endocarditis." Pocket ICU Management, PocketMedicine.com, Inc, 2010. Anesthesia Central, anesth.unboundmedicine.com/anesthesia/view/Pocket-ICU-Management/534124/all/Endocarditis.
Endocarditis. Pocket ICU Management. PocketMedicine.com, Inc; 2010. https://anesth.unboundmedicine.com/anesthesia/view/Pocket-ICU-Management/534124/all/Endocarditis. Accessed October 31, 2025.
Endocarditis. (2010). In Pocket ICU Management. PocketMedicine.com, Inc. https://anesth.unboundmedicine.com/anesthesia/view/Pocket-ICU-Management/534124/all/Endocarditis
Endocarditis [Internet]. In: Pocket ICU Management. PocketMedicine.com, Inc; 2010. [cited 2025 October 31]. Available from: https://anesth.unboundmedicine.com/anesthesia/view/Pocket-ICU-Management/534124/all/Endocarditis.
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