recommendations for preventing endocarditis before dental and other procedures

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

We used to call this bacterial endocarditis...but the preferred term is now infective endocarditis.

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

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