Outpatient Parentral Antibiotic Therapy- Are we Ready?

Diabetic foot infections continue to come to us and we end up giving these patients long courses of IV antibiotics. This requires prolonged hospital stay and beds that we badly need remains occupied. If only these patients can receive antibiotics as out patients , this will be lot of convenience to patients and less expensive to hospital.
A review on diabetic foot infections and other soft tissue infections with emphasis on outpatient infusion therapy is presented here as a Medscape CME activity. It contains a world of information on the practical and administrative aspects of outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy.