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Thyroid emergencies [PDF]

Polish Archives of Internal Medicine, 2019
Myxedema coma and thyroid storm are among the most common endocrine emergencies presenting to general hospitals. Myxedema coma represents the most extreme, life‑threatening expression of severe hypothyroidism, with patients showing deteriorating mental status, hypothermia, and multiple organ system abnormalities.
Ylli, Dorina, Klubo-Gwiezdzinska, Joanna, Wartofsky, Leonard   +2 more
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Transfusion Related Emergencies

Journal of Education and Teaching in Emergency Medicine, 2016
Audience: This exercise is appropriate for all emergency medicine learners (residents and medical students) and learners from other specialties (internal medicine, family medicine, anesthesia). Introduction: About 85 million red blood cell units are
Megan Boysen Osborn, Min-Ha Tran
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Emergencies in Hemophiliacs

Journal of Education and Teaching in Emergency Medicine, 2016
Audience: This modified team-based learning (mTBL) session is appropriate for medical students or emergency medicine residents. Introduction: Hemophilia is an x-linked recessive disorder leading to a decrease in functional clotting factors; there ...
Alisa Wray
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Lifesaving skills training in schools – A qualitative study to explore students, teachers, and parent’s perceived opportunities and challenges

BMC Public Health, 2023
Objective The objective of this study is to explore the perception of teachers, parents and students’ regarding implementation of a school-based lifesaving skills program and help predict potential barriers and solutions.
Natasha Shaukat, Daniyal Mansoor Ali, Mehtab Jaffer, Zeerak Jarrar, Naela Ashraf, Sheza Hassan, Ali Azim Daudpota, Muskaan Abdul Qadir, Aly Hamza Khowaja, Junaid Razzak   +9 more
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Dissemination of public health information during the global cholera outbreak response: WHO’s experience

BMJ Global Health
Since 2022, the seventh cholera pandemic has escalated globally, with reported cases rising from 223 370 in 2021 to 560 823 in 2024 across affected countries. Cholera-related deaths also increased significantly, reaching 6028 in 2024.
Juniorcaius Ikejezie, Alessandro Miglietta, Yurie Izawa, Aura Rocio Escobar Corado Waeber, Adedoyin Awofisayo-Okuyelu, Esther Hamblion, Yosef Temre, Vaishali Sodagar, Abdi Rahman Mahamud, Philippe Barboza, Bruno Rocha Evia, João Rangel de Almeida   +11 more
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External quality assessment for arbovirus diagnostics in the World Health Organization Western Pacific Region, 2013–2016: improving laboratory quality over the years

Western Pacific Surveillance and Response, 2017
Arboviruses continue to pose serious public health threats in the World Health Organization (WHO) Western Pacific Region. As such, laboratories need to be equipped for their accurate detection. In 2011, to ensure test proficiency, the WHO Regional Office
Mohammad Yazid Abdad, Raynal C Squires, Sebastien Cognat, Christopher John Oxenford, Frank Konings   +4 more
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Emerging Powers, Emerging Markets, Emerging Societies: Global Responses [PDF]

, 2016
In Chapter 1, we presented our understanding of the “great transformations” taking place in international relations and in the international political economy. These transformations are also creating responses at national level in terms of economic/market orientation, political alliance, development strategy, and so on. One of the book’s key objectives
Christensen, Steen Fryba, Li, Xing
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Informing the pandemic response: the role of the WHO’s COVID-19 Weekly Epidemiological Update

BMJ Global Health
On 31 December 2019, the Municipal Health Commission of Wuhan, China, reported a cluster of atypical pneumonia cases. On 5 January 2020, the WHO publicly released a Disease Outbreak News (DON) report, providing information about the pneumonia cases ...
Maria D Van Kerkhove, Mahmoud Hassan, Ibrahima Socé Fall, Olivier Le Polain de Waroux, Boris Igor Pavlin, Sandra Adele, Kazuki Shimizu, Oliver Morgan, Daniel Feikin, Lorenzo Subissi, Richard G Pebody, Masaya Kato, Opeayo Ogundiran, Ana Riviere-Cinnamond, Tshewang Dorji, Ingrid Hammermeister Nezu, Friday Idoko, Tamano Matsui, Silviu Ciobanu, Juniorcaius Ikejezie, Blanche Johanna Greene-Cramer, Tondri Noe Guinko, Samuel Mesfin, Harsh Lata, Alessandro Miglietta, Yurie Izawa, Aura Rocio Escobar Corado Waeber, Anahi Rico Chinchilla, Adedoyin Awofisayo-Okuyelu, Esther Hamblion, Melissa M Higdon, Ayse Acma, Samuel Moro, Homa Attar Cohen, Mary Anissa Sinnathamby, James Richard Otieno, Yosef Temre, Brian Ngongheh Ajong, Bernadette Basuta Mirembe, Vaishali Sodagar, Craig Schultz, Joao Muianga, Stéphane De Barros, Yeowon Jin, Shagun Khare, Marcia Poole, Nyka Alexander, Manilay Phengxay, Emilie Peron, Brett Nicholas Archer, Zyleen Alnashir Kassamali, Abdi Mahamud   +51 more
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Editorial Note: JEiE Volume 9, Number 1

Journal on Education in Emergencies, 2023
The research articles, field notes, and book reviews featured in JEiE Volume 9, Number 1 focus on refugee education and aspirations, social and emotional learning and literacy, teachers' agency and self-concept, peacebuilding, and education responses to ...
Nathan Thompson, Samantha Colón, Dana Burde   +2 more
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The effect of COVID-19 vaccination in Italy and perspectives for living with the virus

Nature Communications, 2021
Vaccination campaigns against COVID-19 are allowing the progressive release of physical distancing restrictions in many countries. Here, the authors assess the impact of the vaccination program in Italy and evaluate possible prospects for reopening the ...
Valentina Marziano, Giorgio Guzzetta, Alessia Mammone, Flavia Riccardo, Piero Poletti, Filippo Trentini, Mattia Manica, Andrea Siddu, Antonino Bella, Paola Stefanelli, Patrizio Pezzotti, Marco Ajelli, Silvio Brusaferro, Giovanni Rezza, Stefano Merler   +14 more
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