Clinical reasoning for performance of transesophageal echocardiography in veterans with Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia

Emily C Woods; Trisha S M Nakasone; Cybele A Renault

doi:10.1017/ash.2023.493

Clinical reasoning for performance of transesophageal echocardiography in veterans with Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia

Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol. 2023 Dec 4;3(1):e221. doi: 10.1017/ash.2023.493. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Emily C Woods¹, Trisha S M Nakasone², Cybele A Renault^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
² Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA, USA.

Abstract

This study examined physicians' reasoning about obtaining transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) in cases of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SAB). In 221 cases of SAB over 5 years, the most common reasons for not performing TEE were clinical response to antibiotics, negative TTE results, and the expectation that TEE would not change management.