Abstract
Emergencies occur so infrequently in office medical practice that the physician may find himself unprepared in differential diagnosis and appropriate treatment. This is a review, presented first in very brief summary to furnish an instantaneous reference; followed by a more detailed discussion of the various types of reactions and their treatment and, finally, a resume of prophylactic methods, purposely placed in this sequence in the belief that that is the order in which anyone encountering an emergency will find more useful. An abbreviated guide for extreme emergency is as follows: Important points: supine posture, patent airway, proximal tourniquet, constant attendance.
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