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- Title
Infections in people who inject drugs on the acute medical take.
- Authors
Crepet, Anna; Sargent, Catherine
- Abstract
People who inject drugs are disproportionately affected by acute/chronic bacterial and viral infections that are a cause of significant morbidity. Clinical presentations to the acute medical take vary from skin and soft tissue infections to complications of bacteraemias, and can be challenging with difficulties in adherence, pain management, early self-discharges and loss to follow-up. This review summarises the most recent UK epidemiology of injecting drug use and infection as well as clinical presentation and management.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; BACTERIAL disease risk factors; INFECTION prevention; NEEDLE sharing; SKIN diseases; INJECTIONS; COMMUNICABLE diseases; SOFT tissue infections; DISEASES; MEDICAL screening; INFECTION; CRITICAL care medicine; DRUG interactions; VIRUS diseases; PATIENT education; DRUG abusers; DRUG toxicity; PAIN management; DISEASE risk factors; SYMPTOMS
- Publication
Clinical Medicine, 2022, Vol 22, Issue 5, p383
- ISSN
1470-2118
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7861/clinmed.2022-0364