PMID: 11319361Apr 25, 2001Paper

Dealing with bacterial hypodermal infection in general practice: an inquiry and a prospective study

Annales de dermatologie et de vénéréologie
M KoppJ L Schmit

Abstract

The author had for aim to collect data on how general practitioners deal with bacterial hypodermal inflammation. An enquiry on practice and a prospective study were carried out over 3 months. The mean number of cases reached 0.54 per physician over the 3-month period, for a total of 103 cases of bacterial hypodermal infection. The patients'mean age was slightly superior to 60 years, with a high female predominance and a preferential site of infection located in the lower limbs (89.6 p. 100 of the cases). 20 p. 100 of the patients were immediately sent to hospital, mainly because of the importance of local and/or general symptoms, and of the underlying conditions. In home care, antibiotic therapy was almost always oral and consisted in courses of group A penicillin or pristinamycin in over half of the cases, for a mean duration of 12.4 days for erysipelas, and 9.1 days for cases classified as "other type of bacterial hypodermal infection". An anticoagulant treatment was associated in close to 30 p. 100 of the cases, and anti-inflammatory or corticoids agents were prescribed in 17.9 p. 100 of the cases. The cure rate among home care patients reached 89.3 p. 100 and only 3 patients were hospitalized after the initial treatment; th...Continue Reading

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