Tag: PICC

Not All in Vein: Oral Antibiotics for Diabetic Foot Osteomyelitis #ActAgainstAmputation @USC_Vascular @researchatusc @KeckSchool_USC @LimbsandLungs

A growing body of evidence suggests that oral antibiotics may be as effective as intravenous (IV) therapy for treating diabetic foot osteomyelitis (DFO)—a severe and limb-threatening infection commonly associated with diabetic foot ulcers. Traditionally, IV antibiotics have been the gold standard, but a newly published narrative review from our combined team in the Journal of... Continue Reading →

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Oral Is the New IV. Challenging Decades of Blood and Bone Infection Dogma: A Systematic Review @bradspellberg @lacuscmedcenter @usc

Superb work from Wald-Dickler and coworkers adding to the growing body of evidence that (to coin a phrase from senior author Brad Spellberg), shorter may be better and oral > IV. Background We sought to determine if controlled, prospective clinical data validate the long-standing belief that intravenous (IV) antibiotic therapy is required for the full... Continue Reading →

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