{"id":806,"date":"2016-06-21T17:24:23","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T21:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emeddoc.org\/?p=806"},"modified":"2016-06-21T17:24:23","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T21:24:23","slug":"trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole-or-placebo-for-skin-abscess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/?p=806","title":{"rendered":"Trimethoprim\u2013Sulfamethoxazole or Placebo for skin Abscess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we reviewed 3 previous studies <a href=\"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/?p=799\">here,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/?p=611\">here <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/?p=611\">here<\/a>. We mentioned that should we really treat simple Skin abscess? NEJM published &#8220;Trimethoprim\u2013Sulfamethoxazole versus Placebo for Uncomplicated Skin Abscess&#8221; in March 2016. Patients were randomised to TMP-SMZ 320-1600 mg twice a day for 7 days versus Placebo in patients greater than 12 years old with uncomplicated skin abscess.<\/p>\n<p>Conclusion: In settings in which MRSA was prevalent, trimethoprim\u2013sulfamethoxazole treatment resulted in a higher cure rate among patients with a drained cutaneous abscess than placebo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMoa1507476\">Link to article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we reviewed 3 previous studies here, here and here. We mentioned that should we really treat simple Skin abscess? NEJM published &#8220;Trimethoprim\u2013Sulfamethoxazole versus Placebo for Uncomplicated Skin Abscess&#8221; in March 2016. Patients were randomised to TMP-SMZ 320-1600 mg twice a day for 7 days versus Placebo in patients greater than 12 years old with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,13,14,15,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infectious-disease","category-pgy1","category-pgy2","category-pgy3","category-pgy4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":807,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions\/807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}