Optimisation of the antibiotic guidelines in The Netherlands. VII. SWAB guidelines for antimicrobial therapy in adult patients with infectious endocarditis.
The Working Party on Antibiotic Policy (Dutch acronym is SWAB) is a Dutch organisation that develops guidelines for in-hospital antimicrobial therapy of bacterial infectious diseases. This present guideline describes the antimicrobial treatment for adult patients with infective endocarditis. The choice and duration of antimicrobial therapy is determined by the infecting micro-organism, sensitivity of this micro-organism for antimicrobial therapy, location of the endocarditis, left-sided or right-sided, and presence of intracardial prosthetic material. In this guideline, the empirical therapy for endocarditis is discussed as well as the therapy for the most frequent causative organisms: streptococci, enterococci, staphylococci and HACEK micro-organisms.
Verhagen
D W M
DW
Department Internal Medicine, Academic Medical Centre (F4-217), Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
van der Feltz
M
M
Plokker
H W M
HW
Buiting
A G M
AG
Tjoeng
M M
MM
van der Meer
J T M
JT
D000328:Adult; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy*; D016983:Enterococcus; D016908:Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / Q000188:drug therapy; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis / Q000009:adverse effects; D006801:Humans; D009426:Netherlands; D016459:Prosthesis-Related Infections / Q000188:drug therapy; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000188:drug therapy; D013290:Streptococcal Infections / Q000188:drug therapy
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents