Rapidly Fatal Infections

Emergency physicians are trained to separate “sick” from “not sick” patients during their training. Nevertheless, every emergency physician will face situations in which early intervention is critical to their patient's outcome. Infectious diseases are responsible for many of these potentially...

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Autores principales: Hans, Diana, Kelly, Erin, Wilhelmson, Krista, Katz, Eric D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7132742/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18406975
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.emc.2008.01.003
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description Emergency physicians are trained to separate “sick” from “not sick” patients during their training. Nevertheless, every emergency physician will face situations in which early intervention is critical to their patient's outcome. Infectious diseases are responsible for many of these potentially poor outcomes. This article discusses early identification and treatment for several rapidly fatal infections, including two newly identified travel-related illnesses.
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spelling pubmed-71327422020-04-08 Rapidly Fatal Infections Hans, Diana Kelly, Erin Wilhelmson, Krista Katz, Eric D. Emerg Med Clin North Am Article Emergency physicians are trained to separate “sick” from “not sick” patients during their training. Nevertheless, every emergency physician will face situations in which early intervention is critical to their patient's outcome. Infectious diseases are responsible for many of these potentially poor outcomes. This article discusses early identification and treatment for several rapidly fatal infections, including two newly identified travel-related illnesses. Elsevier Inc. 2008-05 2008-04-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7132742/ /pubmed/18406975 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.emc.2008.01.003 Text en Copyright © 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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