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Overview
Medical Therapy
Any significantly massive infection is a medical emergency. In cases of gangrene, the infection is so severe by the time that a diagnosis is made that countering the bacterial load is impossible even with the strongest available antibiotics, for example gentamycin and vancomycin. Antibiotics alone are not effective because they don't penetrate ischemic muscles enough to be effective. However, penicillin is given as an adjuvant treatment to surgery.