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Chemical Burns

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Use appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) to avoid secondary contamination. Exposure Expose the patient in a systematic manner while keeping remaining body areas covered e.g. 1 limb at a time, to reduce the risk of hypothermia. Assess pupillary reaction to light. Acute Crit Care. 2019 Nov;34(4):276-281. doi: 10.4266/acc.2019.00647.

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ED care of refugee populations from sub-Saharan Africa

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Signs of malnutrition – which places patients at higher risk for infection – can include cachexia, muscular wasting, sunken eyes, redundant skin folds, edema, brittle skin and hair, bradycardia, hypotension, and hypothermia. IPC for Marburg Virus Disease (MVD): PPE Part 1:PPE Basics What, When, and Why to Use PPE.