How to Treat Bacteria in the Blood

Staph Aureus bacteremia as a standard of care needs an echocardiogram, at least a trans-thoracic echo to look for vegetations. If you find one, then you have to decide what to do with that. Some cases you can probably just monitor blood cultures and make sure they clear up. But there are a lot of subtleties here and getting into what should these actual durations of treatment be.