• Singap Med J · Oct 2010

    Singapore Armed Forces Medical Corps-Ministry of Health clinical practice guidelines: management of heat injury.

    • L Lee, K M Fock, C L F Lim, E H M Ong, B H Poon, K H Pwee, C R O'Muircheartaigh, B Seet, C L B Tan, and C S Teoh.
    • Singapore Armed-Forces Medical Corps-Ministry of Health Clinical Guidelines Workgroup on Management of Heat Injury.
    • Singap Med J. 2010 Oct 1;51(10):831-4; quiz 835.

    AbstractThe Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) Medical Corps and the Ministry of Health (MOH) have published clinical practice guidelines on Management of Heat Injury to provide doctors and patients in Singapore with evidence-based guidance on the prevention and clinical management of exertional heat injuries. This article reproduces the introduction and executive summary (with recommendations from the guidelines) from the SAF Medical Corps-MOH clinical practice guidelines on Management of Heat Injury, for the information of readers of the Singapore Medical Journal. Chapters and page numbers mentioned in the reproduced extract refer to the full text of the guidelines, which are available from the Ministry of Health website: http://www.moh.gov.sg/mohcorp/publications.aspx?id=25178. The recommendations should be used with reference to the full text of the guidelines. Following this article are multiple choice questions based on the full text of the guidelines.

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