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Brain Trauma Guidelines for Emergency Medicine

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Fluid Resuscitation Intravenous fluids should be administered in the prehospital setting to treat hypotension and/or limit hypotension to the shortest duration possible. Hypotensive patients should be treated with blood products and/or isotonic fluids in the prehospital setting. Prehosp Emerg Care. Accessed 2022, [link].

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Cholera: ED presentation, evaluation, and management

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Patients who cannot tolerate oral intake of fluids should receive intravenous (IV) fluid resuscitation but are encouraged to start drinking ORS as soon as they are able. Zinc therapy The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends starting zinc supplementation in children with cholera infection.