Skip to main content

Table 1 Eron classification system for patients with skin and soft tissue infection[16]

From: Oral flucloxacillin and phenoxymethylpenicillin versus flucloxacillin alone for the emergency department outpatient treatment of cellulitis: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

Class

Patient criteria

1

Afebrile and healthy, other than cellulitis

2

Febrile and ill appearing, but no unstable comorbidities, or systemically well with comorbidity (PVD, CVI, morbid obesity)

3

Toxic appearance, or at least one unstable comorbidity, or a limb-threatening infection

4

Sepsis syndrome or life-threatening infection, for example, necrotizing fasciitis

  1. CVI chronic venous insufficiency, PVD peripheral vascular disease.
Back to article page

Trials

ISSN: 1745-6215