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#67 – Nixing the Nidus: Managing Retained Sources in Prosthetic Joint Infections

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Oral Antibiotics for Diabetic Foot Infections

The number of patients discharged on oral antibiotics for their orthopedic infections doubled after the University of Utah handed out a new guideline. Doctor: I don't want your oral antibiotics being blamed for treatment failure that I think was more or less predestined. We are now looking at data on did we cause any harm were there increased on planned readmissions or repeat surgeries in the patients who got oral antibiotics.

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