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Executive Summary
Occupational Toxicological Emergencies
January 16, 2012
- Contact dermatitis is treated with removal of the irritant
and topical steroids, and, in severe cases, with oral
steroids.
- Pulmonary irritants are often treated with oral steroids,
but their use remains controversial.
- Consider hydrofluoric acid burns when a patient has
severe pain and little physicals signs.
- Organophosphates have been outlawed in the United
States since 2000.
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Uncommon but Important Infectious Diseases — January 5, 2009
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| Three Dangerous Testicular Torsion Myths |
| Acute Onset of Pain, Erythema, and Edema in the Skin Overlying the Lacrimal Sac: Dacryocystitis |
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