Draining simple skin abscesses in combination with antibiotic treatment is more effective than drainage alone, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers ...

Management of Skin Abscesses in the Era of Methicillin-ResistantStaphylococcus aureus. New England Journal of Medicine, 2014; 370 (11): 1039 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMra1212788 ...

New Treatment Guidelines for Skin Abscesses Caused by MRSA Doctors continue to grapple with how to diagnose, treat and prevent community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).

Specifically, the abscess cure rate in the treatment group was 80.5% compared with 73.6% in the modified intention-to-treat 1 (mITT-1) population, which included patients who took at least a ...

Abscess Treatment: Self-Care at Home If the abscess is small (less than 1 cm or less than a half-inch across), applying warm compresses to the area for about 30 minutes 4 times daily may help.

A Placebo-Controlled Trial of Antibiotics for Smaller Skin Abscesses. New England Journal of Medicine, 2017; 376 (26): 2545 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1607033 ...

Ladde, J., et al. (2020) A Randomized Controlled Trial of Novel Loop Drainage Technique Versus Standard Incision and Drainage in the Treatment of Skin Abscesses.

Management of Skin Abscess The advent of MRSA and the rising incidence of skin abscesses have challenged clinical practices and posed many questions for which evidence-based medicine has limited ...

The researchers found that clinical cure of the abscess occurred in 80.5% of the trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole group and in 73.6% of the placebo group in the modified intention-to-treat population ...