A Nationwide Survey Study on Medical Student Experience in Acute Care Surgery.

Background: There is little known about medical student education in acute care surgery (ACS)-how much and what type of exposure students receive in the specialty. The aim of this study was to investigate the current status of ACS education provided to students in U.S.

Rapidly fatal necrotizing soft tissue infection due to Clostridium sordellii in an injection drug user.

Clostridium sordellii infections are known to be associated with high morbidity and mortality. To date, only a small number of cases with necrotizing soft tissue infection due to C. Sordellii have been reported.