Febrile cover image

50: Bad to the Bone

Febrile

00:00

Is It Possible to Stop Antibiotics and Your Infection Comes Back?

When we have hardware infections and younger patients, it's obviously not feasible to have them on antibiotics forever. The duration of therapy would be different if they did have TB or a fungal infection. If I have the data to tell them what I think the chances are of their infection coming back, I will share that with them. For prosthetic joint infections, for example, we can often say like, well, typically people treated with a two-stage exchange of our work Or whatever.

Transcript
Play full episode

The AI-powered Podcast Player

Save insights by tapping your headphones, chat with episodes, discover the best highlights - and more!
App store bannerPlay store banner
Get the app