Early intervention for evolving necrotizing soft tissue infection stops flesh eating bacteria

Early intervention for evolving necrotizing soft tissue infection stops flesh eating bacteria

Highlights • NSTI is a life threatening emergency requiring extensive debridement. • Providers tend to misdiagnose NSTI as cellulitis. • Early diagnosis of NSTI is recognition of rapid progress of severe pain, tenderness, and sepsis. • We suggest that early recognition of NSTI can avoid surgical deb...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of pediatric surgery case reports 2017-12, Vol.27 (C), p.4-6
Hauptverfasser: Numata, Kenji, Shiga, Takashi, Inui, Tetsuya, Konaka, Masahiro, Stein, Gerald H
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Sprache:eng
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Surgery
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Zusammenfassung:Highlights • NSTI is a life threatening emergency requiring extensive debridement. • Providers tend to misdiagnose NSTI as cellulitis. • Early diagnosis of NSTI is recognition of rapid progress of severe pain, tenderness, and sepsis. • We suggest that early recognition of NSTI can avoid surgical debridement.
ISSN:2213-5766
2213-5766
DOI:10.1016/j.epsc.2017.09.001