EM Cases · Infective endocarditis
Septic native-valve endocarditis — resus station
ACEM Fellowship resus OSCE on cultures-before-antibiotics, Duke framing, empiric therapy and complications.
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Prompt
Febrile IVDU with new murmur, hypoxic, multiple pulmonary nodules.
Stem
All persons, presentations and observations in this station are fictional and invented for teaching assessment; they do not describe a real person.
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- [1]Li JS, Sexton DJ, Mick N, et al. Proposed modifications to the Duke criteria for infective endocarditis. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2000.PMID 10770721
- [2]Imazio M The 2023 new European guidelines on infective endocarditis: main novelties and implications for clinical practice. J Cardiovasc Med, 2024.PMID 38916201