Professional Development Experience: a learning activity for pharmacy residents.
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The use of daptomycin has been associated with an elevation in creatine phosphokinase level, with a reported incidence of 2.8% in phase III clinical trials. Published case reports have documented the presence of myopathy in patients who received daptomycin; however, there have been no previously reported cases of rhabdomyolysis in animals or humans to date. We describe a case of rhabdomyolysis during therapy with daptomycin.
While patient-controlled analgesia and intermittent intravenous opioids are primarily used for pain control, transdermal drug delivery is a possible adjuvant treatment.
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