Abstract:Introduction:
Cases of injection drug use-related infective endocarditis (IDU-IE) requiring surgery are rising in the setting of the current U.S. opioid epidemic. We thus aimed to determine the nature of addiction interventions in the perioperative period.
Methods:
This is a retrospective review of surgical IDU-IE from 2011 to 2016 at a tertiary care center in New Haven, Connecticut. The data collected included substances consumed recreationally, consultations by social work (SW), psychiatry, pharmacotherap… Show more
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