ILOs
- Consider why people who inject drugs are at particular increased risk of infection
- Understand the common bacterial infections and complications of infection that present in people who inject drugs
- Have an understanding of public health and risk management interventions that may improve the health of people who inject drugs
- How big of a deal is drug use in the UK?
- How are drug deaths in Scotland?
- Look at drug related hospital statistics, and morbidity and mortality figures in Scotland…
- Let’s compare the top 10 conditions in the most deprived areas compared to the least deprived areas…
Case 1
- The situation…
- What happened then?
- The investigations…
- You are called to help him, what do you do?
- Where’s this bug likely to have come from?
- What a CT scan showed..
- Which antibiotics were given and how was he managed?
- Look what blood cultures, echo and other investigations showed…
- Look at fibrin-platelet vegetations and a scan of bacteraemia collecting in the bone…
Case 2