How many total days of antibiotics do you prescribe for uncomplicated non-purulent cellulitis in hospitalized patients who show clear clinical improvement within 48–72 hours?
How do you consider recent data supporting shorter antibiotic courses? What factors push you toward a longer course?
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How many total days of antibiotics do you prescribe for uncomplicated non-purulent cellulitis in hospitalized patients who show clear clinical improvement within 48–72 hours?
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Hospital Medicine · Yale School of Medicine/Yale-New Haven Hospital
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Thanks for the question. Five days total, with transition to oral antibiotics upon clinical improvement to complete this course. Notably, my health system (via our EMR-based clinical decision support tool) recommends penicillin (IV) or amoxicillin (PO) as first-line treatment for nonpurulent celluli...
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