Identify-Isolate-Inform: A tool for initial detection and management of measles patients in the emergency department

Western Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 212-219

  Koenig, Kristi L ^a   Alassaf, Wajdan ^a   Burns, Michael J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California Irvine School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPYRETIC AGENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; MEASLES VACCINE; RETINOL;

ANOREXIA; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BODY RASH; BRONCHIOLITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMON COLD; CONJUNCTIVA DISEASE; CONJUNCTIVITIS; COUGHING; CROUP; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSESSMENT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECCHYMOSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; ENCEPHALITIS; FEVER; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; HYDRATION; IDENTIFY ISOLATE INFORM; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INFLUENZA; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; MALAISE; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINATION; MYALGIA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OTITIS MEDIA; PAPULE; PERIORBITAL EDEMA; PETECHIA; PHOTOPHOBIA; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POST EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURE LABOR; PROPHYLAXIS; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SUBACUTE SCLEROSING PANENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; PATIENT ISOLATION;

DISEASE NOTIFICATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; MEASLES; PATIENT ISOLATION;

EID: 84925708481     PISSN: 1936900X     EISSN: 19369018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5811/westjem.2015.3.25678     Document Type: Article

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