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To prevent bacterial endocarditis in the catheterization laboratory our policy consists of: intravenous antibiotics administration associated with a specific recommendation for physician and environmental sterility control.
Antithrombotic prophylaxis is the second issue addressed in this chapter.
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Piazza, L. (2021). Antibiotics and Anticoagulation. In: Butera, G., Chessa, M., Eicken, A., Thomson, J. (eds) Cardiac Catheterization for Congenital Heart Disease. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69856-0_3
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