Lost and Found: Identifying Right Pulmonary Embolus in Transit Using the Suprasternal Notch Approach.

• The SSN window is critical in detecting clot in transit leading to saddle thrombus. • The RPA may be the only place that PE can be visualized. • SSN views provide accurate data necessary to confirm thrombus in pulmonary arteries.

Supporting syringe services programs in the initiation and scale-up of vaccine administration: findings from in-depth interviews.

Background: Vaccine-hesitant persons who inject drugs are at increased risk for several vaccine-preventable diseases. However, vaccination rates among this population remain low. While syringe services programs (SSPs) are places where persons who inject drugs feel comfortable accessing services, few offer vaccination services.

Implementing the COVID-19 Rapid Community Assessment on Vaccine Confidence: Lessons Learned From Alabama and Georgia.

Engaging communities is a key strategy to increase COVID-19 vaccination. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was developed for community partners to obtain insights about barriers to COVID-19 vaccine uptake and to engage community partners in designing interventions to build vaccine confidence. In spring 2021, 3 CDC teams were deployed to Alabama and Georgia to conduct a rapid community assessment in selected jurisdictions.

Vaccination barriers and opportunities at syringe services programs in the United States, June-August 2021-A cross-sectional survey.

Background: Syringe services programs (SSPs) are an important venue for reaching people who inject drugs (PWID) to offer preventive services; however, not all SSPs offer vaccinations. We aimed to describe barriers and opportunities for SSPs to offer vaccinations.

Methods: During June-August 2021, we conducted a descriptive, cross-sectional survey of SSP providers in the United States.

Reddit on PrEP: Posts About Pre-exposure Prophylaxis for HIV from Reddit Users, 2014-2019.

Social media forums provide a window into how gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men talk about pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention (PrEP) outside of research contexts. To examine information exchange about this important pillar of HIV prevention, discussions around PrEP were collected from the r/askgaybros subreddit of the social media site Reddit (2014-2019). Post titles and asks were qualitatively coded to identify themes describing the primary purpose of the post.