Special Operations Forces Medical Handbook
5-92 Follow-up Actions Wound Care: Keep clean and dry. Consultation Criteria: Report any case to local health authority immediat ...
5-93 mised, crops of crusted red-purple papules appear. Cat scratch disease: Variable fever >101°F is accompanied by crusted ...
5-94 ID: Brucellosis COL Naomi Aronson, MC, USA Introduction: Brucellosis is a common febrile illness in the Mideast, Mexico and ...
5-95 ID: Ehrlichiosis LTC Glenn Wortmann, MC, USA Introduction: Ehrlichiosis is a tick-borne bacterial illness. Human infection ...
5-96 by droplet inhalation. The incubation period is 1-7 days. This rare disease has foci in the western USA, South America, Asi ...
5-97 Follow-up Actions Wound Care: Do not perform incision and drainage of suppurative nodes. Evacuation/Consultation Criteria: ...
5-98 Follow-up Actions Return evaluation: Referral as needed. Consultation Criteria: Failure to improve. Zoonotic Disease Consid ...
5-99 Carditis: Viral myocarditis - unlikely to see joint symptoms or the E. marginatum rash Pericarditis - may see diffuse ST se ...
5-100 Continuation of acute signs, red/swollen area spreads locally, color turns to blue/purple with bullae, may see gangrene by ...
5-101 neonatal). There are four subtypes described for tetanus: generalized, localized, cephalic and neonatal. Subjective: Sympt ...
5-102 Diet: High calorie, initially use tube or IV feeding. Prevention and Hygiene: Use topical antibiotics to umbilical stump. ...
5-103 Percussion: Acute (< 2 hr); Sub acute (2-48 hr) Typhoidal form: Enlarged liver and spleen; pneumonic form: Signs of con ...
5-104 ID: Typhoid Fever COL Naomi Aronson, MC, USA Introduction: Typhoid fever is caused by Salmonella typhi. Typhoid fever is a ...
5-105 Patient Education General: Use tepid baths/fanning to bring down temperature. Activity: Vigorous oral rehydration, 3-4 lit ...
5-106 Measles 0.5 ml SC of Attenuvax or MMR None currently required Required if no (preferred) serological evidence of previous ...
5-107 Surveillance for Illness and Injury While on deployments, including those involving host nation personnel, medics must com ...
5-108 Line 19 All Other, Medical/Surgical Line 20 TOTAL DNBI Line 21 Dental Field Sanitation General: a. Factors that create a ...
5-109 guidelines: Avoid local street vendors. Their personal hygiene habits tend to be poor, which results in contaminated food ...
5-110 resources are available by smoking, curing, making jerky or pemmican, salting, and pickling. (See Vet Medicine Chapter.) c ...
5-111 seconds. Chemical sanitizing solutions are prepared in the following order of preference: Use Disinfectant, Food Service, ...
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