Alert for heart patients
Doctors and dentists are being alerted about the potential danger to some heart patients of normal dental work. The National Heart Foundation has produced a dental wallet card for patients at risk to remind their dentists that they might need antibiotics. Those who have had heart surgery usually need such protection, even after successful heart surgery. “Infection on an artificial valve is a particularly dangerous illness, yet so many
patients seem to forget or have not been told that they still need antibiotic cover,” the foundation said. “We should be able to prevent these serious infections by good teamwork between patients, doctors, and dentists. The first essential is that the patients at risk should be told about this by their doctors and they in turn must tell their dentist,” said Dr D. R. Hay, medical director of the foundation, in Christchurch.
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Press, 13 May 1981, Page 24
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