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Brain Trauma Guidelines for Emergency Medicine

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National Center for Health Statistics: Mortality Data on CDC WONDER. CDC’s efforts to improve traumatic brain injury surveillance. Blood oxygen saturation should be continuously measured in the prehospital setting with a pulse oximeter and supplemental oxygen administered to maintain blood oxygen saturation above 90%. J Safety Res.

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ToxCard: Tetanus and Strychnine – Expanding the Differential for Severe Muscle Spasm

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Recovery from profound lactic acidosis, hyperthermia, and rhabdomyolysis. 2016.07.025 Pinkbook: Tetanus | CDC. Clin Toxicol. 1970;3(2):267-273. doi:10.3109/15563657008990475 Boyd RE, Brennan PT, Deng JF, Rochester DF, Spyker DA. Strychnine poisoning. 1983;74(3):507-512. doi:10.1016/0002-9343(83)90999-3 Hardin J, Griggs R. The Lancet.

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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. The CDC hotline is 1-855-856-4713 (toll-free) or 1-770-488-7100 (all hours), email address malaria@cdc.gov.