On diabetic foot, wound healing, amputation prevention, and the merger of consumer tech with medical devices
Margin-directed antibiotic therapy after surgery for diabetic foot osteomyelitis is appealing, but surgical assessment, histopathology, and microbiology often provide different answers. A new Clinical Infectious Diseases Viewpoint explains why multidisciplinary interpretation and prospective standardization are essential.
The study by our friends from the Balgrist Hospital led by Muri et al. (2024) provides important insights into the ongoing debate about preoperative antibiotic use for diabetic foot infections (DFIs). Drawing from a comprehensive database of 1,235 cases treated at the Balgrist University Hospital in Zurich, the authors evaluated whether systemic antibiotics administered prior... Continue Reading →
