Use of antibiotics in people with diabetic foot disease: A consensus statement

Abstract

The authors, on behalf of the Scottish Diabetes Group and the Scottish Infectious Diseases Society, provide broad, practical guidance on the use of antibiotics in people with diabetic foot disease complicated by infection. Recommendations on the most appropriate investigative techniques, antibiotics and likely infecting organisms are provided. This guidance is dependent on local microbiological epidemiology and susceptibility patterns, and prescribing guidelines, and the authors encourage all those managing infection in the diabetic foot to seek local specialist infection advice, where necessary, on the use of antibiotics.