#severe malaria

[emergencymanager]

CDC recommend Artesunate as First-Line Treatment for Severe Malaria in US

CDC recommend Artesunate as First-Line Treatment for Severe Malaria in US CDC is issuing new guidance to clinicians recommending Artesunate,WHO-recommended first-line treatment of severe malaria,as First-Line Treatment for Severe Malaria since April 2019.

CDC is issuing new guidance to clinicians recommending Artesunate as First-Line Treatment for Severe Malaria in the United States of America(U.S.A). This change in treatment protocol is necessary because the only FDA-approved intravenous (IV) antimalarial drug in the U.S., quinidine, has been discontinued by the manufacturer and will no longer be available. 

As of April 2019, artesunate,…

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[keniserson]

New WHO Malaria Treatment Resource--for Free Download

  The WHO has just produced a new, very nice Handbook of Severe Malaria Treatment. should come in handy, since it is both in electronic format (for easy transport) and downloadable -all for FREE. 

  It can be downloaded at: 

http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/79317/1/9789241548526_eng.pdf

  Thanks to Elis Gonzalez, M.D., Director Medico en Ministerio de Salud Panama, for providing this!