Unaware of Antibiotic Resistance Risks, Patients Are Stopping Them Too Early

Antibiotic resistance is a growing public health crisis with severe implications for clinical management in medicine, including urology. Alarmingly, many patients from our kidney stone community have admitted to stopping their antibiotics early!

Urologists, remind patients to complete their course of antibiotics or risk becoming septic, developing organ dysfunction, and contracting lethal infections*!

*Source: Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) / Antibiotic Resistance – Sepsis Alliance