Medical care of ill disaster evacuees; additional diagnoses to consider

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• Alternative Title:
  Disaster safety
• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  Presenting symptoms -- Alphabetical listing of clinical summaries.
  
  Common medical problems will continue to be the most prevalent conditions among evacuees. However, evacuees have been exposed to potentially contaminated flood waters and crowded living conditions, and have had many opportunities for traumatic injury therefore; clinicians also should consider some less common diagnoses when evaluating patients. This document outlines, by presenting symptoms and alphabetically, some conditions to consider when providing healthcare to evacuees.
  
  
• Content Notes:
  At head of title: Disaster safety
• Subjects:
  Delivery Of Health Care Disasters Emergencies Emergency Treatment Relief Work
• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Pages in Document:
  electronic resource; 1 online resource (17 p.)
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:f59ca8ccdfac7cb6ba64f26757125ad95d5d150fd22578859ed63657822184fa
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/12209/cdc_12209_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 205.21 KB ]