Diabetic Foot Infection Antibiotic Study

• Status: Terminated
• Trial end date: 2012-04-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This is a pilot study to explore the effects of long-course versus short course antibiotics on wound healing in surgically managed diabetic foot infections. Hypothesis: Diabetic Foot Infections (DFIs) are best managed with an early aggressive surgical approach and short term antibiotic use. Post-operative prolonged antibiotic use increases costs and resource utilization without improving outcomes.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Greenville Health System; Prisma Health-Upstate
• Treatments: Anti-Bacterial Agents; Antibiotics, Antitubercular

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients receiving treatment for moderate (Grade 3-IDSA guidelines) infection of one or more toes from diabetes mellitus

Exclusion Criteria:

• IDSA Grade 1,2, or 4 infections

• Non-diabetic foot ulcers

• Non-infected foot ulcers

• Sepsis

• Currently taking antibiotics for reasons not related to foot infection

• Infections requiring a transmetatarsal amputation

• Ischemic ulcers

• Gangrene

• Revascularization within the last 3 months