Prevalence of DVT in patients with lower limb cellulitis, by Gabriel Santos.

Gabriel Santos RFH

Nice touch with the research qn staying in the header

Is there a need to improve the DVT clinical prediction tool for patients with cellulitis?

Currently 2 level Wells score

Cellulitis over-estimates the Wells score

Cellulitis also raises the D dimer score

RoL - the likelihood of concurrent DVT with cellulitis was in the range of 0.5% to 1%.

Based on these deciding to do a retrospective service evaluatoin

Intending to use the outome as a pilot study for power calculation for future research. With a view to modifying the wells score for patients with cellulitis.

Qn: Would the diagnosis of cellulitis be a clinical one.

Good question.

Qn: new cellulitis versus non resolving cellulitis

Yes good

QN: IP vs OP

Good answer: concurrence vs. causal.