Adverse event associated with a change in nonprescription syringe sale policy.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To report and describe the possible correlation of a change in syringe sale policy at a community pharmacy with an adverse clinical outcome.

Setting

Providence, RI, in summer 2009.

Patient description

27-year-old white woman with a long-standing history of chronic relapsing opiate addiction and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/hepatitis C virus (HCV) coinfection.

Case summary

The patient presented to the hospital emergency department with 5 days of severe diffuse pain, swelling in her hands and feet, and several days of rigors with fevers, sweats, and chills. She was diagnosed with sepsis resulting from a disseminated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection. The patient was treated with intravenous antibiotics, neurosurgical dra

SUBMITTER: Zaller ND 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3008769 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature