Guide for Clinical Case Management and Infection Prevention and Control During a Measles Outbreak.
| Format: | eBook |
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| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Geneva :
World Health Organization,
2020.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Online Access: | Click to View |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1.1 Target audience
- 1.2 Key recommendations
- Objectives
- 3.1 Disease
- 3.2 Clinical presentation
- 3.3 Complications
- Public health surveillance case definitions and classifications
- Clinical management and infection prevention and control measures
- 5.1 Early recognition/triage of patients with clinically suspected measles or severe illness
- 5.2 Early infection prevention and control: apply standard and airborne precautions
- 5.3 Immediate administration of vitamin A
- 5.4 Symptomatic treatments for prevention of complications
- 5.5 Early supportive care for sepsis/severe illness
- 6.1 Health care workers
- 6.2 Patients
- References
- Key criteria to assess nutrition and vital signs in children
- Classification of dehydration.