Soft tissue infections sepsis

Stevens, D.L., Tanner, M.H., Winship, J., Swarts, R., Ries, K.M., Schlievert, RM., and Kaplan, E. 1989. Reappearance of scarlet fever toxin A among streptococci in the Rocky Mountain West Association with severe streptococcal soft tissue infection, sepsis and the toxic shock-like syndrome. N. Engl. J. Med. 321 1-7. 

Spreading soft tissue infection and osteomyelitis are often the first complications that develop from diabetic foot infection. Some patients develop bacteremia and sepsis. 

It is used for severe bacterial infections peritonitis, sepsis, meningitis, osteomyelitis, endocarditis, pneumonia, pleural empyema, pulmonary abscess, purulent skin infections and soft tissue infections, and infections of the urinary tract caused by microorganisms that are sensitive to the drug. Synonyms of this drug are nebicine, obracine, and others. 

Cefalotin is used for bacterial infections of the lower respiratory tract, urinary tract, skin, soft tissues, bones and joints, sepsis, peritonitis, osteomyelitis, mastitis, infected wounds, and post-operational infections. Synonyms of this drag are ceflin, seffein, coaxin, and others. 

It is used for peritonitis, sepsis, meningitis, cholangitis, empyema of the gaU bladder, pneumonia, lung abscesses, pyelonephritis, infections of the bones, joints, skin, soft tissues, abdominal and gynecological infections, and for infected wounds and bums. The main synonym of this drug is rocefm. 

A 40-year-old woman had multiple bone injuries, severe sepsis, and coma after a car accident a retroperitoneal hematoma caused by lumbar fractures was drained, but she continued to be pyrexial (23). She had prominent accumulation of Ga, which had been used for bone scanning, in her multiple recent fractures and an area of accumulation in the soft tissue related to a fractured vertebra. Post-traumatic paravertebral calcifications had accumulated Ga and simulated the presence of an infected hematoma. 

After the source of infection is identified, prompt efforts to remove or eliminate the source should be initiated. With an infected intravascnlar catheter, the catheter should be removed and cnltured. Urinary tract catheters should be removed if association with sepsis is suspected. Suspicion of soft tissue (cellulitis or wound infection) or bone involvement should lead to aggressive debridement of the affected area. Evidence of an abscess or sepsis associated with any intraabdominal pathology should prompt surgical intervention. 

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