Supportive Care of the First 2 Ebola Virus Disease Patients at the Monrovia Medical Unit

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2015, Pages e47-e51

  Wong, Karen K ^a   Perdue, Christopher L ^a   Malia, Jennifer ^a   Kenney, James L ^a   Peng, Suzette ^a   Gwathney, Jamal K ^a   Raczniak, Gregory A ^a  

^a U S PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

acute kidney injury; Ebola; hemorrhagic fever; Liberia; point of care systems

Indexed keywords

ANTIEMETIC AGENT; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CEFALEXIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CREATININE; FUROSEMIDE; HALOPERIDOL; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LEVOFLOXACIN; MAGNESIUM; MEFLOQUINE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; METRONIDAZOLE; NITROGEN; ORAL REHYDRATION SOLUTION; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; SERUM ALBUMIN; UREA; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIARRHEA; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ERYTHEMA; FEVER; HICCUP; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPOKALEMIA; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LABORATORY TEST; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; MALARIA; MALE; MICROSCOPY; ORAL REHYDRATION THERAPY; OXYGEN SATURATION; PARENTERAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PATIENT CARE; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SINUS RHYTHM; SOCIAL CARE; T WAVE; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; VOMITING; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; LIBERIA; POINT OF CARE SYSTEM;

ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY; ADULT; EBOLAVIRUS; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; LIBERIA; MALE; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84939175766     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/civ420     Document Type: Article

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