Individualize Treatment for Diabetes-Related Foot Infections

Conversations about how to treat foot infections in patients with diabetes will be spurred by updated treatment guidelines.

Create an individualized care plan that includes debridement...wound care...off-loading...and specialist referrals (vascular, etc), if needed.

Keep in mind, about half of diabetes-related foot ulcers are not infected...and there are no good data that antibiotics speed ulcer healing or reduce risk of an infection.