TY - JOUR ID - 91943 TI - Cellulitis: when to say its treatment failure JO - Journal of Emergency Practice and Trauma JA - JEPT LA - en SN - AU - Sheikh, Sadaf AD - Emergency Medicine Department, Fujairah Hospital, Fujairah, United Arab Emirates Y1 - 2023 PY - 2023 VL - 9 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 1 KW - Cellulitis KW - treatment failure KW - Antibiotics DO - 10.34172/jept.2022.06 N2 - Cellulitis is treated with antibiotics as routine management and based on the literature the cellulitis hospitalization can be avoided by 11% if appropriate antibiotics are used.1 Randomized clinical trials and Cochrane reviews have suggested that oral antibiotics are non-inferior to intravenous administration (1). We would like to highlight here the unrequired use of intravenous antibiotics in cellulitis. Intravenous antibiotics are recommended in patients with sepsis. This is supported by a study done on 1800 patients with cellulitis diagnosis, where one third of patients were hospitalized UR - http://www.jept.ir/article_91943.html L1 - http://www.jept.ir/article_91943_7fa4d99417587ac7d981eeda383cce97.pdf ER -