This video discusses the fundamental differences between diabetic foot ulcers and cellulitis and what teams would likely be involved for the patient pathway.
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So what's the difference between diabetic foot ulcer and cellulitis? So typically patients with cellulitis have a skin infection, but without infection or pus in deeper layers, and that can be pretty simply treated with antibiotics. In diabetic foot ulcer, there's a break in the skin. And so bacteria and organisms can get into the deeper layers of the foot. That's difference one. difference too is they tend to form pus and that tends to need a surgical procedure to drain us. So these patients tend to need an operation. The other kind of difference is that patients with cellulitis don't have to have diabetes, they don't have to have problems with their blood supply. And so the whole management is undertaken by different team. So you don't need the diabetic foot team for cellulitis, but for diabetic foot patients with a deep-seated foot abscess or bone infection, then we need our team to get involved.
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