Question 66 · LDEK · Medically compromised patient

According to the 1997 guidelines by the American Heart Association in patients with the high risk of infective endocarditis, antibiotic prophylaxis is not obligatory before:

  1. A. tooth extraction.
  2. B. root planing.
  3. C. intraligamentary anesthesia.
  4. D. apicoectomy.
  5. E. nerve block.
Hint

The 1997 AHA list targets procedures causing significant bleeding and bacteraemia; which routine injection was explicitly excluded?

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