Is incision and drainage of cutaneous abscesses associated with bacteremia in afebrile adults?
I&D of localized cutaneous abscesses in afebrile adults is unlikely to result in transient bacteremia. Larger studies are needed to determine whether routine antibiotic prophylaxis is necessary for afebrile patients undergoing I&D.
Numbers of significant pericardial effusion as detected by routine echocardiography were low (3.6%) and clinically relevant effusions absent. We thus recommend performing echocardiography after RFA only, if effusion is suspected clinically or if RFA was performed for AF, due to the high incidence of effusions with this type of ablation.