Society guideline links: Skin and soft tissue infections

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Management of Staphylococcus aureus infection" and "Society guideline links: Dog and cat bites".)

International

●World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES) and Surgical Infection Society Europe (SIS-E): Consensus conference – Recommendations for the management of skin and soft-tissue infections (2018)

Canada

●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't prescribe antibiotics after incision and drainage of uncomplicated skin abscesses unless extensive cellulitis exists (2021)

●Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS): Practice point for management of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus skin abscesses in children (2011, reaffirmed 2020)

United States

●American College of Radiology (ACR): ACR Appropriateness Criteria on suspected osteomyelitis, septic arthritis, or soft tissue infection (excluding spine and diabetic foot) (2022)

●Surgical Infection Society (SIS): Guidelines on the management of complicated skin and soft tissue infections, 2020 update (published 2021)

●American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP): Policy statement on opposition to routine culturing of skin and soft tissue abscesses (2018)

●Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST): A practice management guideline on optimal timing of initial debridement for necrotizing soft tissue infection (2018)

●Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA): Practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of skin and soft tissue infections, update (2014)

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Guideline on cellulitis and erysipelas – Antimicrobial prescribing (2019)

●BMJ Rapid Recommendations: A clinical practice guideline on antibiotics after incision and drainage for uncomplicated skin abscesses (2018)