Many patients with this life-threatening bacterial infection present with nonspecific symptoms that prompt a broad medical workup to rule out other potential sources of infection.
Most pharmacies that closed between 2009 and 2015 in the United States were independent drugstores in low-income urban areas with underserved populations.
Expanding access to naloxone, sterile syringes, and HIV preexposure prophylaxis can help prevent negative consequences of drug use and reduce inequities in overdose-related morbidity and mortality.
Multidisciplinary collaboration coupled with the use of multimodal strategies has enabled the tailoring of treatment plans based on the patient’s medical status and type of surgery.