Emergency Medicine Tools to Manage Smallpox (Vaccinia) Vaccination Complications: Clinical Practice Guideline and Policies and Procedures

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 665-680

  Thorne, Craig D ^a   Hirshon, Jon Mark ^a   Himes, Carrie D ^a   McDiarmid, Melissa A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIDOFOVIR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; SMALLPOX VACCINE; VACCINIA VACCINE;

ANGINA PECTORIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARDIOTOXICITY; CELLULITIS; CHILL; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEATH; ECZEMA; ECZEMA VACCINATUM; EDEMA; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; ENCEPHALITIS; ERYTHEMA; ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME; FATIGUE; FETUS DISEASE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; ISCHEMIA; LEGAL LIABILITY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHANGITIS; MALAISE; MEDICAL STAFF; MYALGIA; MYOPERICARDITIS; NAUSEA; PAIN; PERICARDITIS; POSTVACCINAL ENCEPHALITIS; POSTVACCINIA URTICARIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUSTULE; REVIEW; ROSEOLA VACCINIA; SHIVERING; SKIN DISEASE; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; TOXIC ERYTHEMA; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION; VACCINIA; VACCINIA GANGRENOSA; VACCINIA KERATITIS;

EID: 0142197084     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-0644(03)00629-2     Document Type: Article

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