Prophylactic Antibiotics and Neuraxial

In fellowship, our institutional dogma was that if a patient was on antibiotics we would not perform any neuraxial intervention. Have patient on chronic antibiotics (6 months into 2.5 year course) for knee replacement hardware infection with a lumbar radicular symptom who could benefit from a LESI. No infectious symptoms right now. I spent some time reviewing the literature (google schoalr search) this morning and couldn't find anything that spoke to recommendations if a patient was on... Read more
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