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Mastering Minor Care: Dog Bites

Taming the SRU

Although not every person seeks health care for these injuries, the majority of those that do end up in the emergency department. In 2008, this led to greater than 316,000 emergency department (ED) visits and about 9,500 hospitalizations [1]. Clinical Infectious Diseases. Annals of Emergency Medicine.

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Updates on Onchocerciasis: Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment

EMDocs

Vision loss carries a high degree of morbidity and is associated with higher all-cause mortality, 4 and it is our role as emergency providers to recognize potentially reversible causes of such adverse outcomes. million infected people suffer from skin disease and 1.15 7 Approximately 14.6 million from partial or complete blindness.