Guidelines for Acute Rheumatic Fever in Remote Aboriginal Communities

The treatment is stratified based on the patient's risk of acute rheumatic fever in the first instance. Patients at a higher risk are recommended that they're treated with empiric antibiotic therapy regardless of whether or not the clinical features are suggestive of a viral infection. The use of guidelines is interesting so certainly you know 98% of people listening to this podcast I would imagine would be not working in remote Aboriginal communities and so therefore it absolutely makes sense if anyone comes in from that community and has a sore throat that do follow this guideline and routinely give them something like long-acting penicillin.