Publications by authors named "Nathaniel Avalos"
Background: Current guidelines recommend blood cultures in skin and soft-tissue infection (SSTI) patients only with signs of systemic toxicity and wound cultures for severe purulent infections. Our objectives were to determine: 1) blood and wound culture yields in patients admitted with SSTIs; 2) whether injection drug users (IDUs) and febrile patients had higher blood culture yields; and 3) whether blood and wound cultures grew organisms sensitive to typical SSTI empiric antibiotics.
Methods: We prospectively enrolled adult patients admitted from the ED with SSTIs at an urban hospital.
Article Synopsis
- Individuals with a history of alcoholism, even when abstinent, show ongoing difficulties with impulse control, which links to a higher chance of relapse.
- Research leveraging brain imaging has pointed to issues in the prefrontal cortex but has not clarified the underlying processes.
- A study on rats demonstrated that reduced activation of glycine and serine in the ventral medial prefrontal cortex contributes to increased impulsivity during abstinence, suggesting these neurotransmitters and their receptors could be key targets for therapies aimed at reducing relapse risk.